A trusting small-town girl runs away to New York with a man who promises marriage, and finds herself trapped in a brothel, ruled by debt, fear and the corrupt alliance of police, politicians and procurers. Kauffman follows her through the lodging houses, courts and jails of the city with a reformer’s anger and a reporter’s eye for detail.
A sensation of the white-slavery panic, reprinted more than a dozen times within two years, and a document of Progressive Era reform. Download the free EPUB.