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Mar 2024
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Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls by E...

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Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls by Ernest A. Bell audiobook. Genre: history First published in the early 1900s, Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls is Ernest A. Bell's urgent exposé and reformist call to action against what he and his contemporaries termed the 'white slave trade' - the organized recruitment and coercion of young women and girls into pro ... Show More
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