Steven Weisenburger, "A Historical Margaret Garner"Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Michigan Opera Theatre. Retrieved April 20, 2009. "Bertram Wyatt-Brown reminds us, Southern men commonly referred to their pregnant wives' last trimester or so when they were sexually unavailable as "the gander months" because it was supposedly natural, and to some extent informally countenanced, for them to seek intimate "comfort" with unmarried women or with enslaved women, if they owned any."
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Steven Weisenburger, "A Historical Margaret Garner"Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Michigan Opera Theatre. Retrieved April 20, 2009. "Bertram Wyatt-Brown reminds us, Southern men commonly referred to their pregnant wives' last trimester or so when they were sexually unavailable as "the gander months" because it was supposedly natural, and to some extent informally countenanced, for them to seek intimate "comfort" with unmarried women or with enslaved women, if they owned any."
