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Charles Knowlton, M.D., 1800-1850.
FoP

Freethinker,
Doctor,
author of
The Fruits of Philosophy,
America’s first birth control manual, for which he was jailed, fined, and harassed by irate clergymen.

This will be a starting-point for links to a story, documents, etc.

Timeline of Knowlton’s early life

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An advertisement for Watson’s reprint of Knowlton’s Fruits of Philosophy, in the London Examiner, January 17, 1836.



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