Word: slavers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...story: a seafaring man, a slaver, makes a last good voyage, establishes his wife and son in comfort. He wants his son to be different from himself, to have nothing to do with his father's brutal activity, but to lead a purely intellectual life. The son obeys; as he grows there grow on him the habits of a bookish life. His power of action atrophies, and disaster dogs him. His wife runs away with an-other man, his two daughters come to grief because he does not know how to help them, does not notice till too late that...