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| 17 | 1188 | View more quotes about women">Women such as she, straightforwardly and naturally, without a second thought, save for the most practical means to accomplish the end, had been captured, raided for, seized, enslaved, and bought and sold. |
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| 17 | 1185 | Ellen, of course, was an educated person, and historically informed. |
| 17 | 1186 | She knew that her fate, or condition, was not, historically, that unusual. |
| 17 | 1187 | She knew that throughout vast periods of human history, indeed by far the most of it, the human chattel had been an article of commerce. |
| 17 | 1188 | Women such as she, straightforwardly and naturally, without a second thought, save for the most practical means to accomplish the end, had been captured, raided for, seized, enslaved, and bought and sold. |
| 17 | 1189 | Such was customary in other times. |
| 17 | 1190 | Throughout most of human history, the "slaver's necklace," a coffle of chained beauties, was a familiar sight. |
| 17 | 1191 | Indeed, Ellen knew that, should historical conditions change on Earth, human slavery, with its various values, and its capacity to solve various social problems, might be reinstituted, might rise again. |