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At first the idea seemed preposterous to Penelope. ause he represented all men, all husbands, all generals and cap­tains, and the world would be far better if more were like him. “We can starve them out. In later years white men and women would often ask incredulously: Why did the blacks accept slavery? In the decade from 1851 to the end