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GYPSY SLAVERY.—Dr. M. Gaster, in the Journal of the Gypsy Love Society (Third Series, vol. ii., Part 2) publishes a remarkable series of facts drawn from a case decided in Moldavia in 1851, which shows that at that time the sale of Gypsies must have been comparatively common, as there seems to have been a fixed, or at any rate normal, price at which slaves were sold. The persons offered for sale fall into four groups, including various trades, some hereditary and others in which the son practises a craft different from that of the father. Sales of this kind go back at least to the beginning of fifteenth century.
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Research Items. Nature 112, 669–670 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112669a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112669a0