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1. Anne Hutchinson in 1643, a Puritan midwife and prophet in Boston, persecuted for her advanced by views on the equality and rights of women. Her particular heresy was to maintain it was a blessing and not a curse to be a woman. 46, advanced in her 15th pregnancy, she was forced to stand for days before a board of male interrogators, called a heretic and instrument of Satan: ...