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>tolerated their existence and let them live in their own villages
They were enslaved and sold like cattle.
It was illegal to marry or have sex with a gipsy woman, punishment was prison or death for Romanians.
Racial purity and all of that.
"For Sale
A First Shelter of Slaves or GYPSY SLAVES
Through an auction at the Amiada of the Monastery of St. Elias
on May 8, 1852.
[Illustration of a person in chains]
consisting of 18 men,
10 boys, 7 women, and 3 girls
: in good condition :"
