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Paperback Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans Book

ISBN: 0807137154

ISBN13: 9780807137154

Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans

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Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book Award
When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all." Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered few attractions to entice respectable women as...

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