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19 May 1804: A woman is sold for the second time at Leeds market

John Mayhall. 1860. The Annals and History of Leeds, and Other Places in the County of York. Leeds: Joseph Johnson. Get it:

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On May 19th, a wife was sold in Leeds market for five guineas, to a gentleman who well knew her merits. Strange to say, she had been previously sold at the same place before she was born, her mother, when she was in embryo, being disposed of in a similar manner.

To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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