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“A young woman who became pregnant in this manner taced a grim set of options: acknowledge the …. seek an abortion, which was illegal and often deadly; or hide the pregnancy and then abandon the baby. Some women who chose this third option-most of them young, poor, and without family support— labored alone and in desperation committed intanticide, a crime that if discovered meant certain execution.”157

It’s dark

It’s kind of dark.

Good.

“For most people of the era, one's reputation was inextricably bound up in one's identity, and much of that identity was inherited, including place of origin and social status.For Frantz Schmidt, the importance of such identity was undeniable, but character and deeds-two factors within his own control-determined reputation,not birth.”