“With No One Present With Her But Her Mother”: Infanticide and Social Childbirth in the Post-Civil War U.S. South
Journal of Family History: Studies in Family, Kinship, Gender, and Demography
Published online on November 13, 2025
Abstract
Journal of Family History, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 317-339, July 2026.
Historians have long characterized infanticide as an act committed by unmarried women alone and in secret. However, this article demonstrates that in the post-Civil War U.S. South, the grandmothers of deceased infants, or the mothers of women accused of ...
Historians have long characterized infanticide as an act committed by unmarried women alone and in secret. However, this article demonstrates that in the post-Civil War U.S. South, the grandmothers of deceased infants, or the mothers of women accused of ...