10 000+ years of civilization vs @Best Buy 50+ years of "#feminism"
Just understand these "#moral" forces, who come to  "#educate" " #barbarians" -  the #matriarch  #cultures as former #russia the #finnougry & #natives #peoples #land's. Also #NativeAmericans (#Haudenosaunee #hop etc)
"1747 #BenFranklin - Why should unmarried pregnant women be fined & whipped, while their impregnators go free?"
http://arvutiministeerium.ee/kingshire/woman/wife_price/wife_price_america_uk.html
""The Speech of #PollyBaker" was 1st published in the April 1747 issue of The Gentleman's #Magazine"
Small random samples in here: 
"People try to persuade her that her chains are woven only of flowers; but can she really have any doubt about her degradation, even in those regions that are bloated by philosophy such as #England, where a man has the right to take his wife to market with a rope around her neck, and sell her like a beast of burden to anyone who will pay his asking price?" (Charles Fourier. "Degradation of #Women in #Civilization." Theorie des Quatre Mouvements et des Destinees Generales, pp. 131-33. Paris, France: n.p., 1841-48.)"

"early 19C magistrate is on record as stating that he did not believe he had the right to prevent wife sales, & there were cases of local Poor Law Commissioners forcing husbands to sell their wives, rather than having to maintain the family in workhouses.

"Wife selling persisted in England in some form until the early 20C; according to the jurist & historian James Bryce, writing in 1901, wife sales were still occasionally taking place during his time. In one of the last reported instances of a wife sale in England, a woman giving evidence in a Leeds police court in 1913 claimed that she had been sold to one of her husband's workmates for £1."


https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/blog/blog-posts/brutal-exhibitions-of-depravity-19th-century-wife-selling-in-literature.php
"Divorce as we know it was not permitted until the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act which allowed newly formed civil Divorce Courts to litigate divorce cases. Prior to this, there were other legal and illegal methods of ending marriages: separation mense et thoro (from bed and board), annulment, priva​te separation, an expensive private Bill and desertion. Another method was wife-selling.

The origins of wife-selling in Britain are debated. Lawrence Stone dated it back to the sixteenth and seventeenth century, with the first recorded case occurring in 1553. [1] Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, on the other hand, believed this 'established British institution' to be Anglo-Saxon in origin, practiced as early as the eleventh and twelfth century. [2] Many saw this custom as a legal method of 'public self-divorce' and marriage. Wife-sales are associated with the 'plebeian' class, particularly those in rural communities and small towns, according to John Gillis. [3] Despite the 1857 Act, which made divorce more accessible for the lower classes through Divorce Courts, wife-sales still occurred into the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In fact, one of the last ones was in 1913 in Leeds. [4] 

Wife-sales occurred by either:

    public auction in a public place with fake and genuine bidders, but usually a pre-determined buyer;
    public sale with an agreement between the involved parties in a public place to create witnesses;
    private agreement, conducted with privacy, witnesses and/or written agreements.

To sell a wife by public auction or sale, a husband would bring his wife, often with a halter around her to resemble livestock, to a communal location, commonly a market-place or public house. Public auctions and sales were ritualistic and symbolic. The public arena created witnesses to the transaction to let the community know that one marriage had ended and another begun. Generally, wife-sales occurred with the consent of both the husband and wife, with a buyer (new husband) in mind, who was often the wife's lover if there had been an affair.

The price of wives varied from meagre amounts to quite high sums. Goods as well as money were exchanged. In 1832, a wife in Carlisle was sold for £1 and a Newfoundland dog! [5] If we go back to our previous image, this may be what it's depicting. At Selby in 1862, a wife was sold for a pint of beer which would have cost only 3½ pence. [6] At the other end of the spectrum, a Ripon wife was sold for the high amount of 25 shillings or 300 pence. [7] "



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https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088356/1912-08-02/ed-1/seq-2/ocr.txt
"Newspaper Subscription Rates.
One copy, one year. . .". $1.50
When paid in Advance, (otherwise, $2.00) "
"...market price of
wives doped out, not to a penny, but
close enough. Tbe research work came
to on end when we put the subject of
marriage up to a prominent bachelor.
"I wouldn't give 60 cents for a wife."
he asserted.
"But," we asked, "you'd give a
counterfeit half dollar for a better
half, wouldn't you?"
He acknowledged tbat he would. Bo,
you see, were getting right down to
cases. New York Journal.
The Point of View.
"I suppose your clerks are all Re
publicans?" "No," said the merchant "I hire the
best men. irrespective of their poli
tics." "What a queer way to run a busi
ness!" commented the politician.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Only a Decoy.
"I think she will make a very domes
tic wife. I have been calling on her
for several months now and always
find her darning one of her father's
Rocks." 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11271/11271-8.txt
"But do the _fathers of the South ever sell
their daughters?_ My heart beats, and my hand trembles, as I write the
awful affirmative, Yes! The fathers of this Christian land often sell
their daughters, _not_ as Jewish parents did, to be the wives and
daughters-in-law of the man who buys them, but to be the abject slaves
of petty tyrants and irresponsible masters. Is it not so, my friends? I
leave it to your own candor to corroborate my assertion. Southern slaves
then have _not_ become slaves in any of the six different ways in which
Hebrews became servants, and I hesitate not to say that American masters
_cannot_ according to _Jewish law_ substantiate their claim to the men,
women, or children they now hold in bondage."

#Gentelmens #wifeyforlife #wifeselling #wifeprice #womanselling #womanprice #buywoman #buywife #america #unitedstates #british #unitedkingdom