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The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Advertiser Story July 6, 1826
Cautionary note: human trafficking and ritual killing
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Two accounts of inhuman customs in India: a poor woman sells her twelve-year-old daughter for 150 rupees, and a dying man is forcibly drowned in the Hooghley by relatives and priests who believe dying on the Ganges ensures heaven.
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