Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans / [electronic resource] :
Judith Kelleher Schafer.
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
- xiii, 221 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.
Selling sex and the law -- "Disgusting depravity" : sex across the color line -- The sexual exploitation of children -- Infamous public women -- Larceny and robbery among prostitutes -- Violent lives -- The murder of a "lewd and abandoned woman" : State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker -- Keeping a brothel in antebellum New Orleans -- "An ordinance concerning lewd and abandoned women."
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