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Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade

by Ernest A. Bell

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A Complete And Detailed Account Of The Shameless Traffic In Young Girls.
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Pretending to conduct a "War on White Slave Traffic", this is really a war on women. White males document, in this compilation, their own fund-raising efforts at the expense of helpless and poor girls. On the one hand, the "customers" who ravish their sex. On the other hand, the Judgers who condemn them as prostitutes, while raking in the "charity" for themselves.

Photographs of the bars over the windows of the brothels. The bars lock from the outside -- girls are trapped inside.

Almost no mention of the fact that most enslaved women were Blacks, Natives, Irish and Chinese. The authors put "white" in quotation marks, to make their appeal to racist themes. In the brothels, behind the appearance of "gilded life" of fancy dress and dancing, the only fresh air was in the back yard "where they are watched by colored attendants". [98]

I appreciated the note on the fact that "the Master Himself allowed a fallen woman to wash His feet with her tears and wipe them with the hairs of her head". And then uses the story to seek more money to include missions to these "fallen women" so clearly "included in the scope of the Master's great commission". [99]

Actually recounting the fact that communities of do-gooders would expel fallen girls from these "houses of ill-repute", and when brought before the authorities, "between sobs and tears, these girls said: Where can we go, no homes, money, nor friends? The reply was: I cannot tell you, but you must leave here." [100]
  keylawk | Jun 21, 2019 |
Mothers, keep your girls away from Five-Cent Cinemas, Fruit Saloons, and haunts of the swarthier races!
  overtheseatoskye | Aug 7, 2007 |
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