2022年5月11日 · One woman, after being sold at Smithfield Market, “declared it was the happiest moment of her life” according to one source, and at a 1791 auction in Whitechapel, one witness remarked: “…the bargain being made, she went off, in high spirits, with her new master.” There were other reasons for the woman’s joy upon conclusion of a sale.

Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage that probably began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. After parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband would publicly auction her to the highest bidder.

2014年10月15日 · When wives were sold, many of the sales occurred at a town’s public marketplace, such as London’s Smithfield Market, a livestock market that occupied the site as early as the 10th century. In Sussex, sales didn’t occur at …

The bride-traders sell women as brides or as prostitutes depending on their physical appearance. A common trick employed by bride-brokers in acquiring brides for sale is the offer of a job such as in factories and instead kidnapping them. Bride-traders can sell a young woman for the price of $250 to $800USD. US$50 to US$100 of the original ...

2018年6月7日 · Between the 17th and 19th centuries, divorce was prohibitively expensive. So some lower-class British people didn’t get them—they sold their wives instead. The custom seems outlandish today, but...

Wife selling is the practice of a husband selling his wife and may include the sale of a female by a party outside a marriage. Wife selling has had numerous purposes throughout the practice's history; and the term " wife sale " is not defined in all sources relating to the topic.

2023年10月12日 · Wife auctions (also referred to as wife selling) are precisely what they sound like: a man’s wife is shown to bidders like a dog in a dog show, and after being corralled around, another man could purchase the woman, thus ending the marriage. Wife auctions took place in Victorian England which is believed to have begun in the late 17th century.

2016年11月14日 · Al Jazeera discovered that some women living in villages in Haryana have been sold as many as three times. The villagers call them “Paros”, a derogatory term implying they’ve been purchased....

2016年11月20日 · In poor districts, a wife was considered a chattel to be bought and sold like any other commodity. The husband would take his wife to the marketplace or cattle auction and register his wife as a good of sale and a rope was placed around her neck, waist or wrist, and they were made to stand on an auction block.

2019年10月31日 · In Saudi Arabia, the investigation found hundreds of women being sold on Haraj, another popular commodity app. There were hundreds more on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.