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| 19 | 126 | This was the result, as it View more quotes about turned">turned out, I would later learn, of a special situation. |
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| 19 | 123 | Captives trembled in their chains. |
| 19 | 124 | Interestingly they were all free women. |
| 19 | 125 | At that time I did not realize how unusual that was, not knowing at that time that "slave strikes" are almost always directed against slaves. |
| 19 | 126 | This was the result, as it turned out, I would later learn, of a special situation. |
| 19 | 127 | It was a response to a presumed insult on the part of an administrator of a distant city, something to the effect that those of this city, whose name I did not yet know, were at best cowards and petty thieves, capable of no more than making off with an occasional slave. |
| 19 | 128 | Accordingly that city, smug in its supposed security, had been saved for last, for the final strike of the expedition. |
| 19 | 129 | The result of the administrator's indiscreet remark was that now more than four hundred of that city's free women, almost all of high caste as it turned out, were now on their knees, shackled, on the docking area. |