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The rhetoric of white slavery and the making of national identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Leslie J., 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2023.
Edition:First.
Series:Rhetoric of power and protest
Subjects:
Human trafficking > United States > History > 20th century.
Slavery > United States > History > 20th century.
Prostitution > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
Women, White > United States > History > 20th century.
White people > Race identity > United States.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
Rhetoric > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:Description based on print version record.
Slavery up north: women's displacement in the Wisconsin Northwoods, 1887-1889 -- Mobility and the danger of the city: moral reform in Chicago , 1907-1914 -- The science of social mobility: John D. Rockefeller and the science of reform, 1910-1917 -- A national solution: protecting Whiteness through the 1910 Mann Act -- White slavery and yellow peril: Immigration and transnational threat -- White slavery and transnational flow: International sex trafficking activism before World War I.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781609177331 (electronic bk.)
1609177339 (electronic bk.)