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Author:

Donovan, Brian, 1971-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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--History--United States--History--19th century.
Women--History--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780252030253 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252030257 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005012424

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)