Today’s episode sets up the foundation for all of the New Orleans sex industry history we will cover over the next few months. Tune in for a crash course on everything from early syphillis (including my own for som, the first women of New Orleans, the Ursaline Nuns, placage, and the beginings of antebellum sex work.

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The political cartoon I used:

https://www.hnoc.org/peaceful-evening-gallatin-street

Books and articles used for research today include”

The Accidental City by Lawrence Powell

The Accident of Color by Daniel Brook

Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women by Judith Schafer

Neworleanshistorical.org

Bulbancha is Still A Place ( A zine by the POC Zine Project)

Lords of Misrule by James Gill

The “Baby Dolls” by Kim Marie Vaz

And The American Slave Coast by Constance and Ned Sublette

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