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This 3 page paper reviews the article on slavery in Brazil in the 1870s by Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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number of young women went to the police, testifying that their owners, almost all of whom were women, had forced them into prostitution. Typical of the women was Honorata, who
testified that her mistress sent her on "various occasions" to "houses of known ill-repute" where it was her task to be at the window to receive visitors. Being at the
window meant that the woman could stay in the house and not walk the streets but she was still expected to attract customers. When she didnt sent Honorata to
the brothels, her mistress arranged appointments herself, telling the girl to get dressed and go to a client. Between these assignations, Honorata was hired out as a domestic, most often
as a cook or laundress. All of these various activities, whether prostitution or not, were designed with one thing in mind: to make money for Honoratas owner. In 1871, prostitution
was legal in Brazil, as well as being unregulated, and so owners saw nothing wrong with using these girls to generate an income for them. Graham notes that because prostitution
was legal there was no formal record made of the proceedings, but instead there are a great many court proceedings and "notarial records that a police investigation into the distinctive
practices of slave prostitution" that ultimately involved more than 200 women in one parish. But Grahams actual purpose in writing the article was not to discuss the prostitutes and their
cases but to follow a campaign to clean up the region that occurred that same year. Graham discusses the charges that Honorata brought in detail, because they give a reader
a sense of what life was like for the slaves. First, she notes that slaves were an important source of income for their owners, so much so that they were
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