War on the White Slave Trade
War on the White Slave Trade

Author: Various

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781497304741

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War on the White Slave Trade - Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - The Greatest Crime in the World's History - Author: Various - Editor: Ernest A. Bell I am firmly convinced that when the people of this nation understand and fully appreciate the unspeakable villainy of "The White Slave Traffic" they will rise in their might and put a stop to it. The growth of this "trade in white women," as it has been officially designated by the Paris Conference, was so insidious that it reached the proportions of an international problem almost before the people of the civilized nations of the world learned of its existence. The traffic increased rapidly, owing largely to the fact that it was tremendously profitable to those depraved mortals who indulged in it, and because the people generally, until very recently, were ignorant of the fact that it was becoming so extensive. And even at this time, when a great deal has been said by the pulpit and the press about the horrors of the traffic, the public idea of just what is meant by the "white slave traffic" is confused and indefinite. It is my hope and belief that this work, edited by the scholarly and devoted Ernest A. Bell, whose life of toil for the wayward and the fallen has endeared him to all who know of him and his work, will do much to make the nature, scope and perils of this infamous trade better understood. The characteristic which distinguishes the white slave traffic from immorality in general is that the women who are the victims of the traffic are forced unwillingly to live an immoral life. The term "white slave" includes only those women and girls who are actually slaves—those women who are owned and held as property and chattels—whose lives are lives of involuntary servitude. The white slave trade may be said to be the business of securing white women and of selling them or exploiting them for immoral purposes. It includes those women and girls who, if given a fair chance, would, in all probability, have been good wives and mothers and useful citizens.

White Cargo
White Cargo

Author: Don Jordan

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2008-03-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0814742963

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White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide "breeders" for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock. Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.

White Slaves, African Masters
White Slaves, African Masters

Author: Paul Baepler

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-05-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0226034046

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IntroductionCotton Mather: The Glory of GoodnessJohn D. Foss: A Journal, of the Captivity and Sufferings of John FossJames Leander Cathcart: The Captives, Eleven Years in AlgiersMaria Martin: History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Maria MartinJonathan Cowdery: American Captives in TripoliWilliam Ray: Horrors of SlaveryRobert Adams: The Narrative of Robert AdamsEliza Bradley: An Authentic NarrativeIon H. Perdicaris: In Raissuli's HandsAppendix: Publishing History of the American Barbary Captive Narrative Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls Or, War on the White Slave Trade
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls Or, War on the White Slave Trade

Author: Ernest A. Bell

Publisher:

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781409931546

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The Illinois Vigilance Association was established in 1908 with the aim of upholding the principles of "Purity, Protection, Knowledge and Law." It published a number of works at the beginning of the twentieth-century, including it's most well known; Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; or, War on the White Slave Trade (1910), edited by Ernest Albert Bell (1865-1928), the first Secretary of the Illinois Vigilance Association and the founder and Superintendent of Chicago's Midnight Missions. It has contributions by Edwin W. Sims, a United States District Attorney, Harry A. Parker, Clifford G. Roe, William Alexander Coote, James Bronson Reynolds, Charles N. Crittenton, Ophelia Amigh, Florence Mabel Dedrick, Lucy A. Hall, D. F. Sutherland, William T. Belfield, Winfield Scott Hall and Melbourne P. Boynton, the President of the Association.