Historians note that journalists’ breathless reportage of white slavery ‘provided virtually pornographic entertainment to the reading audience’.66 It was amid this obviously racist freak-out over swarthy men luring white innocents to their ruin that one of the first recognisably modern US anti-trafficking laws, the 1905 Mann Act, passed. The bill, which was ostensibly against forced prostitution, criminalised Black men in romantic relationships with white women.67 In
