[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The theory of the time held that the interest of men and their wives (virtually all adult women were wives) was the same. Folks believed it. No one ever argued that the interests of slaves and slave-masters were the same.

[ought-six]

“virtually all adult women were wives”

Where do you get that from? Hell, women so outnumbered men in “The States” that the surplus was offered paid passage to the Pacific Northwest by lumber and shipping companies so that there would be some available women. I’d venture to say that a great many adult women in “The States” were not married (many were widows), though likely not a majority.