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The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865--1920 (Updated Edition) by Alecia P. Long Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-8071-3112-1 / 0807131121 ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3112-1 / 9780807131121 With a well-earned reputation for tolerance of both prostitution and miscegenation, New Orleans became known as the Great Southern Babylon in antebellum times. Following the Civil War, a profound alteration in social and economic conditions gradually reshaped the city's sexual culture and erotic co |