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[–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, it's a sex trafficking law. Many of the most prominent examples, especially the older ones, were junk. They arrested the world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson because he had a white girlfriend. For 'sex trafficking' her.

Originally the 'white slavery' act (prostitution aka 'white slavery' was a common term around the late 18th-early 19th-century). Anyone accused of violating this bill was basically being accused of being a pimp.

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