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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

In 1719, a ship named Labneutine, which means the Mutant Swim in French, sailed from France and was bound for the Mississippi.

It was loaded with urgently needed goods with French colony, but its most important commodity was a new kind of export

for women. These were 132 women, most of them falsely accused of sex crimes, and they were prisoners shackled in the ship's hole.

At these women are known in all today, their thought as being exclusively prostitutes.

But according to one historian, there's no evidence to believe that.

Some were nobility, some were illiterate laborers, one was a fashion designer, another was a street vendor falsely accused of murder,

but all carved out fascinating lives for themselves in the new world, becoming such things as property owners.

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