The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865--1920 by Alecia P. Long

The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865--1920

Alecia P. Long

304 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
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With a well-earned reputation for tolerance of both prostitution and miscegenation, New Orleans became known as the Great Southern Babylon in antebellum times. Following the Civil War, a profound alteration in social and economic conditions gradua...

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