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To: franksolich

So is the slavery better or worse when it's "white"?


25 posted on 02/15/2005 8:24:38 PM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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To: Doohickey

I am not sure how that term "white slavery" originated, sir; I believe it was first used in the Mann Act of about a hundred years ago, an act which prohibited the importation of women from one state to another, so as to profit from their prostitution.

Since this was about a hundred years ago, and there were still many living who had memories of slavery, perhaps the appellation "white" was used to differentiate; "black slavery" (thank God) having been abolished about forty years before, but still in the national consciousness.


26 posted on 02/15/2005 8:32:44 PM PST by franksolich (Norge uber alles)
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