White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917 Book

This is a scholarly monograph arguing for the importance of race in the "panic" over the (supposed) "white slave trade" epidemic in the late 19th-early 20th century. If one just wants an overview of the book, reading the introduction and conclusion will suffice. As the author acknowledges, the study covers similar ground as other studies that consider the slave trade (see Grittner's book/dissertatation White Slavery Myth Ideology) for instance -- the lens of race is the "new" aspect of the study. Not for the casual reader, in my opinion; there are other, more accessible books on history of prostitution or even white slave trade than this one (i.e. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 or Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition).