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What was the attitude towards sex workers entering Australia during the colonial period and what led to a change in this attitude?
What was the attitude towards sex workers entering Australia during the colonial period and what led to a change in this attitude?
Contemporaries were aware of a more or less organized movement of sex workers into Australia from Japan through Southeast Asia, and from Europe through the Middle East. By the late 1890s, stories began to appear in the press about white slave traders who lured innocent young girls to the colonies and then forced them into a life of prostitution, which led to a change in attitude.
How did the concept of the white slave trade change in the popular imagination?
How did the concept of the white slave trade change in the popular imagination?
In the popular imagination, the white slave trade increasingly came to mean forced prostitution by violence or deceit.
How did the treatment of captive white women justify violent dispossession by white men and redefine dispossessed people as rightful owners of the land?
How did the treatment of captive white women justify violent dispossession by white men and redefine dispossessed people as rightful owners of the land?
The barbaric treatment of captive white women justified the violent dispossession of their captors by white men, which in turn redefined dispossessed people as rightful owners of the land.
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