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  2. Wife selling (English custom) - Wikipedia

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    Towards the end of the 18th century, some hostility towards wife selling began to manifest itself amongst the general population. One sale in 1756 in Dublin was interrupted by a group of women who rescued the wife, following which the husband was given a mock trial and placed in the stocks until early the next morning.

  3. Wife selling - Wikipedia

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    Wife selling is the practice of a husband selling his wife and may ... [255] Shahaji Bhonsle, who ruled Tanjavur 1684–1712, [256] in the early 18th century [257] ...

  4. Husband selling - Wikipedia

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    Husband selling was the historical practice of: a wife selling a husband, generally to a new wife; an enslaver or enslaver's estate selling the husband in an enslaved family, generally to a new enslaver; court-sentenced sales of fathers' services for some years, described as sales of fathers (one apparently a husband [clarification needed]); sales of a husband as directed by a religious authority.

  5. Indentured servitude - Wikipedia

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    Wife selling; Forced prostitution; ... Until the late 18th century, ... Also, during the 18th and early 19th centuries, children from the UK were often kidnapped and ...

  6. Charles Hamilton (female husband) - Wikipedia

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    Charles Hamilton (born Mary Hamilton) was an English 18th-century female husband.In 1746, Hamilton – while living as a man – married Mary Price. [1] [2] After Price reported she was suspicious of Hamilton's manhood to local authorities, Hamilton was prosecuted for vagrancy, and sentenced in 1746 to a public whipping in four towns and to six months imprisonment with hard labour.

  7. Giacomo Casanova - Wikipedia

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    Venice in the 1730s. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Casanova.Giacomo was the first of six children, followed by Francesco Giuseppe (1727–1803), Giovanni Battista (1730–1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731–1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732–1800), and Gaetano Alvise (1734–1783).

  8. Timothy Dexter - Wikipedia

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    Timothy Dexter (January 22, 1747 – October 23, 1806), self-styled Lord Timothy Dexter, was an American businessman noted for his eccentric behavior and writings.He became wealthy through marriage and a series of improbably successful investments and spent his fortune lavishly.

  9. Marie-Joseph Angélique - Wikipedia

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    Allan Greer used the records of her trial to gain a fuller sense of the life of a slave in eighteenth-century Montreal. Placing that experience in context, he notes that "there were degrees and varieties of unfreedom" in this society that affected servants, engagés, apprentices and soldiers; of course, slavery was uniquely horrible in the way ...