Assertion: poor woman | /r/HasProperty | silent
Facets:
value: as the grave
type: LOCATION
value: perforce
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Unless they end up before some kind of tribunal and are forced to tell their story to a justice or a judge, and unless the record of their narrative is preserved, eighteenth-century poor women are perforce as silent as the grave, unavailable to the historian except as a name on a list, or an entry in a register of church and state.