Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans by Judith Kelleher Schafer

Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans

Judith Kelleher Schafer

221 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colonys moral tone, the governor responded, If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all. In Bro...

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