The bureau's first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the " White Slave Traffic Act, " or Mann Act, passed on June 25, 1910.
22.
Though many of the other merchants traded in African slaves, Okill's was the only firm to take no part in the slave traffic, which instead " traded in wood and teeth ( ivory ) ".
23.
He took on the financial burden incurred by France in maintaining the government of Montevideo and in relation to England, took steps towards the abolition of the slave traffic, creating favourable conditions for involvement by Brazil and its allies.
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She also organized the Travelers'Aid Society of New York in 1907 to protect female travelers from falling victim to vice, especially the so-called " white slave traffic " ( the coercion of white women into prostitution ).
25.
Probably not since Harriet Beecher Stowe stayed at the Unionville Tavern while researching runaway slave traffic for her novel " Uncle Tom's Cabin " has there been such a ground-level discussion about the Underground Railroad in Ohio.
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Muxima was an important empire of slave traffic, protected by the Fortress, and the church played an important role in the materialization of the traffic, because it was in this religious local, where the slaves were baptized before being deported.
27.
Although he failed in his attempts to secure the franchise for natives in the Orange River colonies in 1906, his strong protests against the slave traffic in Angola and the cocoa-growing islands of S�o Tom?and Pr�ncipe compelled the Portuguese government to admit the necessity of reform.
28.
In 1910, the US Congress passed the White Slave Traffic Act of 1910 ( better known as the Mann Act ), which made it a felony to transport women across state borders for the purpose of " prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose ".
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Mabel edited the journal of the American Association of Women Ministers, and wrote three books-" The White Slave Traffic versus the American Home ", " The Attitude of Jesus toward Women ", and " The Christian Message on Sex ".
30.
The 1949 Convention presents two shifts in perspective of the trafficking problem in that it views prostitutes as victims of the procurers, and in that it eschews the terms " white slave traffic " and " women, " using for the first time race-and gender-neutral language.
