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Many wives make light work…
Jenny Goodrick
Subsequent to my blog "I want three wives!" I discovered a book titled Forty years among the Zulus. It was written in 1891 by Rev Josiah Tyler, a missionary in Natal. Here are his observations regarding polygamy at that time: "Polygamy presents...

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