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The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 by Alecia P. Long
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“In 1897, in an extremely direct and decidedly non-Protestant fashion, New Orleans city officials, acknowledging their belief that sins of the flesh were inevitable, looked Satan in the eye, cut a deal, and gave him his own address.”
― Alecia P. Long, The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865--1920
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