Trickle Down Episode 3: White Slavery (Part 1) Sample

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the early 20th Century narratives about “white slavery” led to creation of the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, which was wielded by the U.S. federal government to police sexuality. These narratives also helped fuel the growth of the FBI in its early days. But before these narratives arrived in the United States, they first grew in Victorian England. To help expose the horrible truth of the underground sex trade, Evangelical feminist activists fighting for better treatment of prostitutes and the protection of children found common cause with an unscrupulous London journalist named William Stead. But Stead was more interested in selling newspapers than the truth. The result was a horrifying scandal that involved Stead kidnapping a 13 year girl and a deformed narrative about sex trafficking that rippled through history long after his death. This is a 10-part series brought to you by the QAA podcast. To get access to all upcoming episodes of Trickle Down as well as a new premium QAA episode every week, go sign up for $5 a month at patreon.com/qanonanonymous Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES: Bartley, Paula (1998) Preventing prostitution: the ladies' association for the care and protection of young girls in Birmingham, 1887-1914, Women's History Review 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 Robinson, W. Sidney (2012) Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead Schucha, Bonnie (2016) White Slavery in the Northwoods: Early U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking and Its Continuing Relevance to Trafficking Reform, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law Schults, Raymond (1972) Crusader in Babylon: WT Stead and the Pall Mall Gazette Walkowitz, Judith (1992) City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

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0:00.0	In 1934, Maurice Shannon did not have much, but he did have a car, a sedan made by the
0:11.8	car company Grand Page.
0:13.4	There wasn't anything for him in his home of Erie, Pennsylvania, so on November 14th,
0:18.3	he and his girlfriend, Elnord Becker, left town to seek a better life and warmer weather
0:22.8	in the south.
0:24.2	The long road trip required the pair to stop several times to camp outdoors and seek
0:28.5	work to pay for gas.
0:30.1	This was made more challenging by the fact that the country was gripped by the Great Depression.
0:34.5	Against many odds, they finally arrived in Mobile, Alabama.
0:37.3	A couple spent the week of Christmas camped outside the city, huddling together in the rain,
0:42.5	and dreaming of the next stage of their lives.
0:44.9	But two days after Christmas, their plans were interrupted when they are arrested by a deputy
0:49.3	sheriff and turned over to an agent of the U.S. Department of Justice.
0:53.4	The feds accused them of a criminal conspiracy.
0:56.2	Specifically, the charging documents claim that the unmarried couple traveled across state
1:00.6	lines with the intention that Elnord Becker would engage in the practice of submitting
1:04.8	her body to carnal illicit intercourse with the said defendant, Maurice Lorenzo Shannon.
1:10.9	The couple couldn't afford justice, so after they were indicted by a grand jury, they
1:15.4	pled guilty with the hope that the federal judge would show mercy.
1:19.0	Instead, Maurice Shannon was sentenced to six months in a New Orleans federal jail, and
1:23.7	Elnord received six months probation.
1:26.4	They were guilty of felonies, and consequently, many jobs would be close to them, and they
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