A number of laws, such as the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, were passed making it illegal to transport women across state lines for moral purposes.
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Senior police officials from the United States and eleven European countries Monday met in Budapest to seek ways to jointly fight the spread of child prostitution, pedophilia and white slave traffic.
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Nevertheless, the number of black slaves increased substantially in S�o Paulo during the Brazilian Empire, as the slave traffic reached its peak during the first half of the 19th century.
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Cameron also wrote extensively, seeking to gain financial support for her mission, in publications like " Women and Missions " and a pamphlet titled " The Yellow Slave Traffic ".
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Finally, in 1910 the Mann Act, or White Slave Traffic Act made illegal the act of coercing a person into prostitution or other immoral activity, the first federal law addressing prostitution.
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He was one of the first abolitionists to successfully claim that, under the Brazilian Slave Traffic Prohibition Law of 1831, all slaves travelling to Uruguay were immediately free upon their return to Brazil.
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The vast sugar, molasses and rum trade, shipbuilding, the distilleries, a great many of the fisheries, the employment of artisans and seamen, even agriculture _ all were dependent on the slave traffic.
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Over a period of 12 or 13 centuries the total number of captives involved in the Islamic slave traffic could have approached the number _ about 12 million _ taken from Africa in four centuries by Christian Europeans.
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From 1911 to 1913 the United States Department of Justice undertook the task of collecting information on the numbers of prostitutes in brothels in order to use this information against the much feared " White Slave Traffic ".
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By the time of the end of the slave trade in 1850, around 3.5 million slaves had been brought to Brazil & ndash; 37 % of all slave traffic between Africa and the Americas.
