Identifier: B20442506 (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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ifornia, and to Sing-apore and other places. Commissioners appointed by the governorof Hong Kong made a report in 1880, fromwhich the following accounts are taken: Young girls, virgins of thirteen or fourteenyears of age, are brought from Canton or else-where and deflowered according to bargain,and as a regular business for large sums ofmoney, which go to their owners. The regularearnings of the girls go to the same quarters,and the unfortunate creatures obviously formsubjects of speculation to regular traders in thiskind of business, who reside beyond our juris-diction,, Mr. Lister speaks of the brothel-keepers as a horrible race of cruel women, cruelto the last degree, who use an ingenious formof torture, which they call prevention of sleep,which he describes in detail. Two girls were brought before the registrargeneral, both of whom pleaded for protec-tion against their owner, stating that she in-tended to sell them to go to California. Oneof these had been bought by this woman for
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THE ENEMY OF MAiM AND THii ENEMY OF WOMAN. The man on the left is Mike Hart, the white slave trader. He wasat one time a bar-tender in The Paris His testimony appears mChapter VII.

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