Source: Neatorama
When your relationship has gone sour, we have a convenient legal device that provides for couples to go on their separate ways. That’s divorce. However, a couple of centuries ago, divorce was illegal in different parts of the world, including England. Since couples had no way of splitting up without being chastised for it, they had to resort to other measures.
Instead of going through a divorce procedure, men sold their wives for beer.This wasn’t an unusual scene. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, English wives were “sold” for a variety of payments. Prices varied—“as low as a bullpup and a quarter of rum” all the way to “forty [British] pounds and…
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