The precise number of Malagasy citizens put…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

The precise number of Malagasy citizens put to death for religious reasons during Ranavalona's reign is difficult to state with certainty.

British missionary to Madagascar W.E. Cummins (1878) will place the number executed at between sixty and eighty.

Far more are required to undergo the tangena ordeal, condemned to hard labor, or stripped of their land and property, and many of these die.

Persecution of Christians intensifies in 1840, 1849 and 1857; in 1849, deemed the worst of these years by Cummins, nineteen people are fined, jailed or otherwise punished for their Christian faith, of whom eighteen are executed.

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