Abstract

The extent of family planning practice in the antebellum South of the United States is examined using data on 298 Virginia gentry women born between 1710 and 1849. The data are from letters and diaries and indicate that although fertility remained high a definite trend to lower marital fertility can be established by the 1840s and 1850s. (ANNOTATION)

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