White Slave Crusades

Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917

By: Brian Donovan

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Hardcover | 14 January 2006

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During the early twentieth century, individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum launched a sustained effort to eradicate forced prostitution, commonly known as "white slavery." White Slave Crusades is the first comparative study to focus on how these anti-vice campaigns also resulted in the creation of a racial hierarchy in the United States.

Focusing on the intersection of race, gender, and sex in the antiprostitution campaigns, Brian Donovan analyzes the reactions of native-born whites to new immigrant groups in Chicago, to African Americans in New York City, and to Chinese immigrants in San Francisco. Donovan shows how reformers employed white slavery narratives of sexual danger to clarify the boundaries of racial categories, allowing native-born whites to speak of a collective "us" as opposed to a "them." These stories about forced prostitution provided an emotionally powerful justification for segregation, as well as other forms of racial and sexual boundary maintenance in urban America.

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White slavery and the intersection of race and gender	p. 5
The new abolitionism : the cultural power of the white slavery genre	p. 17
Suffrage and slavery : the racial politics of the woman's Christian temperance union purity campaign	p. 37
"The black traffic in white girls" : Chicago's war on vice	p. 56
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the "negro alleged slave trader"	p. 89
"Yellow slavery" and Donaldina Cameron's San Francisco mission	p. 110
Conclusion : the demise of white slavery	p. 129
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