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Title: Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade (electronic resource) : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ...
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928 Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission
Subjects: Prostitution
Publisher: (Chicago? : L.H. Walter?)
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
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interest m her. Suchnattering attentions from an American ladywho wore clothes as fine as those of theItalian nobility could have but one effect onthe mind of this simple little peasant girl andon her still simpler parents Their headscompletely turned and they regarded theAmerican lady with almost adoration Very shrewdly the woman did not attemptto bring the little girl back with her, but heldout hope that some day a letter might comewith money for her passage to America. Oncethere she would become the companion of herAmerican friend and they would have great times together. Of course, in due time, the money came-and the $100 was a most substantial pledge tothe parents of the wealth and generosity of theAmerican lady. Unhesitatingly she was pre-pared for the voyage which was to take her to B. S. STEADWELL. President International American Purity Federation and ediof its official organ The Light. He is one of the great l^d^rs infi.rht agai»mt *hite slavery -ami for purity in the home.
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DAISY UNDER TWENTY, DYING IN THE POOR-HOUSE Less than three years after leaving her home she was found in the poor-house,forgotten by family and friends, and dying of a loathsome disease. WHITE SLAVE TRADE the land of happiness and good fortune. Ac-cording to the arrangements made by letterthe girl was met at New York by two friendsof her benefactress who attended to her en-trance papers and took her in charge. Thesefriends were two of the most brutal of allthe white slave traders who are in the traffic.At this time she was about sixteen years old,innocent and rarely attractive for a girl of herclass, having the large, handsome eyes, theblack hair and the rich olive skin of a typicalItalian. Where these two men took her she did notknow—but by the most violent and brutalmeans they quickly accomplished her ruin.For a week she was subjected to unspeakabletreatment and made to feel that her degrada-tion was complete and final. And here let it be said that the breaking ofthe spirit, the

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