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

248 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, If I send away all th...

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