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Author Donovan, Brian, 1971-

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

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Stacks  HQ144 .D57 2006    Available  ---
Description x, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Prostitution.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social classes.
Social classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Suffrage.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Female prostitution.
Prostitution.
Racism.
Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 0252030257 cloth alkaline paper
9780252030253 cloth alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780252030253