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Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls

Name: Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls
Author: Ernest A. Bell

Ernest A. Bell

Read by Larry Wilson, KleioMilia, Ted Lienhart, czandra, faceForRadio, Winnifred Assmann, mleigh, Michele Fry, LesWilLang, Nancy Gorgen, acousticwave, KevinS, Inkell, Ruth Eden, Connemara and Alan Mapstone · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Preface and Introduction (12:00)
History of the White Slave Trade (18:04)
The Suppression of the White Slave Traffic (28:45)
The White Slave Trade of Today (19:07)
Menace of the White Slave Trade (18:50)
A White Slave Clearing House; A White Slave's Own Story (8:24)
The True Story of Estelle Ramon of Kentucky (36:03)
Our Sister of the Street (31:33)
More about the Traffic in Shame (15:07)
The Traffic in Girls (17:49)
Warfare Against the White Slave Traffic (26:30)
The Boston Hypocrisy (12:05)
The Auctioneer of Souls (17:12)
The White Slave Trade in New York City (24:17)
Barred Windows: How we Took up the Fight (13:50)
The Nations and the White Slave Traffic (19:11)
The Yellow Slave Trade (14:28)
How Snakes Charm Canaries (16:47)
Procuresses, and the Confession of One (20:54)
Wanted—Fathers and Mothers (10:16)
Chicago's White Slave Market (28:57)
The Failure and Shame of the Regulation of Vice (15:23)
The White Slaves and the Black Plagues (12:00)
The White Slave Traffic and the Public Health (14:59)
Venereal Diseases (9:42)
Recruiting Grounds of White Slave Traffickers (13:55)
Practical Means of Protecting Our Girls (30:25)
Laws for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, Part 1 (26:35)
Laws for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, Part 2 (27:37)
Laws for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, Part 3 (24:41)
A Pastor's Part (22:08)
The Story of the Midnight Mission (27:32)
Helen Chambers, Some Other Girls and "Daisy" (27:46)
Destruction of the Vice Districts of Los Angeles and Des Moines (16:40)
Conditions in London (13:16)
For God's Sake, Do Something (6:47)
Poem: Why Are You Weeping, Sister? (4:39)
Poem: The Red Rose (2:50)