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| 17 | 1185 | View more quotes about ellen">Ellen, of course, was an educated person, and historically informed. |
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| 17 | 1182 | How strange, she thought, to be utterly at the mercy of others, to know that you are the slave and that they are the masters, and that you must obey them, and strive diligently, desperately, to please them with all your talent, intelligence and beauty. |
| 17 | 1183 | And that you have no alternative. |
| 17 | 1184 | And that that is simply the way it is. |
| 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. |