Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Selling sex and the law
  • "Disgusting depravity" : sex across the color line
  • The sexual exploitation of children
  • Infamous public women
  • Larceny and robbery among prostitutes
  • Violent lives
  • The murder of a "lewd and abandoned woman" : State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker
  • Keeping a brothel in antebellum New Orleans
  • "An ordinance concerning lewd and abandoned women."