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Author Donovan, Brian, 1971-

Title White slave crusades : race, gender, and anti-vice activism, 1887-1917 / Brian Donovan.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Wayland  363.44089 D719w 2006    ---  Lib Use Only
Description x, 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-180) and index.
Contents White slavery and the intersection of race and gender -- The new abolitionism : the cultural power of the white slavery genre -- Suffrage and slavery : the racial politics of the Women's Christian Temperance Union purity campaign -- "The black traffic in white girls" : Chicago's war on vice -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the "negro alleged slave trader" -- "Yellow slavery" and Donaldina Cameron's San Francisco mission -- Conclusion : the demise of white slavery.
Subject Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0252030257 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780252030253

 
    
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