Pearl - Why Men Used to Pay for Wives w⧸ @thisisshah

00:00:00.080 remember earlier i told you about how before the dowry what you had was was bride wealth

00:00:06.240 formerly called bride price okay most people know it as bride price this is where the man

00:00:10.560 pays the woman's family something not to her to her family um then they as scholars studied it

00:00:17.360 more they they changed the name from bride price to bride wealth because bridewell describes it

00:00:21.200 better but back then the reason that the man paid the bride wealth was because the woman worked 1.00

00:00:27.660 We're not just talking about kids.

00:00:29.160 She was actually out there on the field.

00:00:30.760 So back then, agriculture was less sophisticated.

00:00:33.720 And that's why you see polygyny and bride wealth in places like sub-Saharan Africa. 0.97

00:00:39.000 You saw that with ancient Israelites, even the Old Testament and stuff like that.

00:00:45.040 And you saw this in a lot of different civilizations.

00:00:47.760 And then what they noticed is that as they changed from tools women can actually handle, 1.00

00:00:52.980 like the digging stick or the the hoe um and they move to the plow the plow is this heavy instrument 0.98

00:00:59.860 that takes a lot of strength and you've got to have these you know cattle in the front pulling

00:01:04.260 it and you're trying to keep it in a straight line so men ended up doing this but back then

00:01:08.740 when women were using these other tools they would be out on the fields working all day and when 1.00

00:01:14.020 you married her her family lost that labor value so you paid them a set price and then they use

00:01:19.940 that money to marry maybe another son in their family and then it became a

00:01:23.480 circulating fund. So bride welts are all uniform prices. It's not like this

00:01:27.800 highest bidder thing. It actually is a set price.

Pearl - June 02, 2025