Matilda Joslyn Gage: Hundred

Matilda Joslyn Gage was American abolitionist, writer. Explore interesting quotes on hundred.
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“While the sale of daughters was practiced in England for seven hundred years after the introduction of Christianity, we note that by the ancient law of India, a father was forbidden to sell his daughter in marriage, or receive the smallest present therefor. In mediaeval England the daughter was held as a portion of the father property to be sold to the highest bidder.”

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Source: Woman, Church and State (1893), p. 301

Marriage , Law , Daughters

“It is computed from historical records that nine millions of persons were put to death for witchcraft after 1484, or during a period of three hundred years, and this estimate does not include the vast number who were sacrificed in the preceding centuries upon the same accusation. The greater number of this incredible multitude were women.”

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Source: Woman, Church and State (1893), p. 247

Death , Women , Personality

“The Parliament of Toulouse burned 400 witches at one time. Four hundred women at one hour on the public square, dying the horrid death of fire for a crime which never existed save in the imagination of those persecutors and which grew in their imagination from a false belief in woman’s extraordinary wickedness, based upon a false theory as to original sin.”

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Source: Woman, Church and State (1893), p. 228

Death , Women , Imagination , Time