Trickle Down Episode 5: White Slavery (Part 3)
Added 2022-05-14 04:17:58 +0000 UTCAfter the White Slave Traffic Act passed in 1910, the federal government was ready to start enforcing it with help from the young Bureau of Investigation. The problem is that the gangs of white slavers who snatched innocent girls off the street proved to be more difficult to find than they thought. Instead, the law was used to enforce a moral crusade, punishing citizens who engaged in sexual activity that prosecutors deemed immoral. It was also used by J. Edgar Hoover to target Charlie Chaplin at the beginning of the second red scare.
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Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.
REFERENCES:
Donovan, Brian (2005) White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917.
Langum, David (1994) Crossing over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act
Pliley, Jessica (2014) Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI
Sbardellati, John and Shaw, Tony (2003) Booting a Tramp: Charlie Chaplin, the FBI, and the Construction of the Subversive Image in Red Scare America, The Pacific Historical Review
Charlie Chaplin’s FBI File
https://vault.fbi.gov/charlie-chaplin
Comments
Loving the balance between travis and Jake. We need both!
issaghost
2022-06-09 12:09:58 +0000 UTCListening them talk about the vagueness of the law, I'm reminded of the recent Florida laws in regards to CRT or the don't say gay bill. Intentionally vague so as to leave it open to interpretation to moral panic.
Berjan Been
2022-05-18 19:07:07 +0000 UTCFor sure ! They definitely arnt CTH or trueanon,two pods i love and would never give a cent.
Mark Quintana
2022-05-16 08:00:57 +0000 UTC*helps reinstall the dread.Still awesome AF ! And an awesome unexpected treat. Jake you are awesome. My only real criticism is we need Jake stories.
Mark Quintana
2022-05-16 07:58:26 +0000 UTCThis is one of those most abysmally depressing thing I have ever heard. For some reason this pod calms me and dissipates my existential dread. But this m
Mark Quintana
2022-05-16 07:55:03 +0000 UTCTrav Hive Rise 🆙
Shivvy
2022-05-14 21:49:00 +0000 UTCToo good, all of the stuff yall put out is golden. The only podcast I don't illegally download.
Stone Nelson
2022-05-14 21:19:03 +0000 UTCthis has all be excellent
Scott Benson
2022-05-14 19:39:56 +0000 UTCI cannot overstate how much I love this podcast.
Allen
2022-05-14 17:53:11 +0000 UTCWhat a…. Travisty
Jeff
2022-05-14 17:31:51 +0000 UTCListening to that expansion of white slavery I almost thought they were going to focus on domestic abusers. Then I remembered it was the early 1900s
Michael Webster-Clark
2022-05-14 16:51:12 +0000 UTC
