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Asunto: white slavery and trafficking De: laura agustín <laura@nodo50.org> Fecha: Mie, 28 de Octubre de 2009, 16:53 When critics bring up the similarity of today’s trafficking brouhaha with white-slavery scares, they most often point to William Stead's investigation for the Pall Mall Gazette in London in the late 19th century. In the April 2008 issue of Reason Magazine, Joanne McNeill reviews Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul, by Karen Abbott. I’ve highlighted some phrases that show how the same contradictory interpretations of ‘the evidence’ occurred back then and the same rhetoric from those who hate prostitution. The ‘White Slavery’ Panic: Anti-prostitution activists have been equating sex work with slavery for over a century. In 1907 a group of evangelicals visited Chicago’s Everleigh Club brothel, where they handed out leaflets that said, “No ‘white slave’ need remain in slavery in this State of Abraham Lincoln who made the black slaves free.” According to the Illinois poet Edgar Lee Masters, an Everleigh Club regular, “the girls laughed in their faces.” read more http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin/trafficking-as-white-slavery-chicago-100-years-ago Laura María Agustín Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry http://www.amazon.com/dp/ASIN/1842778609/?tag=lauragus-20
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