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unusual facts about domestic servant



Human trafficking in Benin

The majority of victims are girls trafficked into domestic servitude or the commercial sex trade in Cotonou, the administrative capital.


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Castlethorpe

A settlement of servants and manual workers grew up around the castle and this became the village of Castlethorpe (thorpe is an Old Norse language (particularly Danish) word for homestead, and it is not unreasonable to assume that there may well have been a Danish settlement nearby as the area was, if not part of, certainly close to, the Danelaw).

Frances Lydia Alice Knorr

Initially she worked as a domestic servant and married Randolph Knorr, a German immigrant.