... we can derive that she spent the majority of her time warding off admirers (including Trefry) and retaining the purity of her body. Trefry recounts of his attempts that "she disarms me with that modesty and weeping, so tender and so moving that I retire, and thank my stars she overcame me " (33). Finally, Imoinda's heartrending death is enacted by her husband as part of ... his plan to take revenge on the white men who betrayed him. He fears that if he dies in his attempts, Imoinda ... people pay a deity " (54). In this act, therefore, Imoinda embodies the ideal wife and the pinnacle o...

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