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Fighting the Traffic
in Young Girls
or, War on the White Slave Trade
Edited by Ernest A Bell
Gordon Press, 1975. Reprint of the G S Ball 1910 edition. Fine unused hardback in red leatherette with gilt lettering. Published without a jacket. B/W photos. 481 pages. ISBN 0879682523.
"A complete and detailed account . . . of the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young girls away from home and sell them to keepers of dives." Chapters by Edwin W Sims, William A Coote and others.
Contents
- History of the white slave trade
- Suppression of the traffic
- The trade today
- Menace of the trade
- A slave's own story
- Story of Estelle Ramon
- Our sister of the street
- More about the traffic by Ophelia Amigh
- The traffic in girls by Charles Crittenton
- Warfare against the traffic
- The Boston hypocrisy
- Auctioneer of souls
- The trade in New York
- How we took up the fight
- The nations and the trade
- The yellow trade
- How snakes charm canaries
- Procuresses;
- Wanted: Mothers and fathers
- Chicago's slave market
- The regulation of vice
- The black plagues
- The public health
- Diseases
- Recruiting grounds
- Means of protecting our girls
- Laws for the suppression of the trade
- A pastor's part
- Story of the Midnight Mission
- Helen Chambers
- Destruction of the vice districts in LA
- Conditions in London
- For God's sake, do something.