Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883 by Joel Best

Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883

Joel Best

184 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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For eighteen years following the Civil War, the police in St. Paul, Minnesota, informally regulated brothel prostitution. Each month, the madams who ran the brothels were charged with keeping houses of ill fame and fined in the city’s municipal co...

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