New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

Published in 1912 on the heels of Twenty Years at Hull-House and at the height of Jane Addams''s popularity, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil assesses the vulnerability of the rural and immigrant working-class girls who moved to Chicago and fell prey to the sexual bartering of what was known as the white slave trade.
 
Addams offers lurid accounts–-drawn from the records of Chicago''s Juvenile...