Mann Act

The United States White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 prohibited so-called white slavery. It also banned the interstate transport of females for immoral purposes. Its primary stated intent was to address prostitution and immorality. The act is better known as the Mann Act, after James Robert Mann, an American lawmaker.

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The law has come under criticism from civil libertarians who feel the law is an undue federal infringement and violates the states? discretion in setting their own age of consent laws. Some have also charged that enforcement of the law has been racially biased, since many of the more notable people prosecuted have been successful African Americans.

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The first person prosecuted under the act was heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, who encouraged a woman to leave a brothel and travel with him to another state. Though he later married the girl, and took her away from a brothel, he was nevertheless prosecuted and sentenced to a year in prison.

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Pioneering sociologist William I. Thomas's academic career at the University of Chicago was irreversibly damaged after he was arrested under the act when caught in the company of one Mrs Granger, the wife of an army officer with the American forces in France, although he was later acquitted in court.

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1910: 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar)....

White slavery: White slavery is a 19th century term for a form of slavery involving the sexual abuse of women held as captives and forced into prostitution....

James Robert Mann: James Robert Mann (October 20, 1856–November 30, 1922) was an American legislator and a representative from Illinois, 1897–1922. He was born near Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. He was a lawyer in Chicago and held several local political offices before serving in the U.S. House of ...

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