
History of Everything: The Mad Queen of Madagascar
History of Everything
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The Terror of Rana Volona
Rana Volona from the very start was a very staunch anti-European. She would adopt the harshest methods possible for those that were practicing Christianity as an outside influence and an insult to the native Malagasabe beliefs. Between 1837 and 1856, the Queen ordered the detention and persecution of at least a hundred Christians in just these ways.
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