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last more than five to ten years, the debt sometimes accrued by these women could keep them working there for much longer. However, a significant number either served out their contracts and married a client, went into other employment (including other forms of prostitution), or returned to their family homes. In these cases, the advanced payments a woman's parents received could be used to fund her dowry. Despite this, many women also died of sexually transmitted diseases, or following failed abortions, before completing their contracts.
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of 1657; it was then rebuilt in its new location, named 'Shin
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temple and left at the back entrance, a proper burial being too expensive to afford. The temple therefore also became known as 'Nage-komi dera' ('Throw-away temple'); a memorial in the temple to thousands of anonymous prostitutes of
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2005:Human trafficking in Southeast Asia
938:Women and Class in Japanese History
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1492:Slavery in the Umayyad Caliphate
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1998:East, Southeast, and South Asia
912:A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour
384:Seirō bijin awase sugata kagami
2146:Slave raiding in Easter Island
953:. 16 June 2010. Archived from
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925:Suye Mura: a Japanese Village
790:Inescapable Rain in Yoshiwara
757:French jazz-progressive band
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3219:Red-light districts in Japan
2437:Temporary Slavery Commission
2098:Slavery in the Mongol Empire
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2862:by Honolulu Museum of Art
2738:Emancipation Proclamation
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370:, folio from the series
2442:1926 Slavery Convention
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1815:North and South America
1337:Contract of manumission
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782:Silent Hill 4: The Room
686:The 1955 Japanese film
673:The 1956 Japanese film
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1923:British Virgin Islands
1475:Circassian slave trade
1441:Safavid imperial harem
1436:Ottoman Imperial Harem
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2545:Underground Railroad
2345:United Arab Emirates
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1701:By country or region
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1416:Ma malakat aymanukum
1300:Venetian slave trade
900:on January 23, 2022.
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1834:Americas indigenous
1724:Red Sea slave trade
1714:Contemporary Africa
1577:Topics and practice
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1342:Bukhara slave trade
1295:Genoese slave trade
1172:Contemporary Africa
1152:Forced prostitution
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2850:Image of Yoshiwara
2484:Blockade of Africa
1791:Somali slave trade
1707:Sub-Saharan Africa
1399:Turkish Abductions
1357:Khivan slave trade
1352:Khazar slave trade
1305:Balkan slave trade
1263:Prague slave trade
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1571:Thirteen colonies
1389:Sack of Baltimore
1157:Human trafficking
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833:Naruto: Shippuden
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