Hegel's bondsman is a recurrent trope, as is metaphysical slavery in general.

Perhaps such cartoons are emblematic of the Hegelian master–slave dialectic, and suggest the instability of the existing power relations rather than confirming them.

the whole book is inscribed in the unexamined axiomatics of this simplified--and highly Christianized--outline of the master-slave dialectic in the Phenomenology of Spirit