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Racism, 55 -57, 191 , 254 -55, 353 nn.72, 82, 398 n.45

Rape, 71 , 73 , 156 , 229 , 239 -40, 313 ;

cases pursued in court, 51 , 170 -71, 350 n. 58

Ray, Charles, 289

Ray, Mary Ann, 77

Real estate holdings, 105 . See also Landlords, of prostitution

Redding, Mrs., 223

"Red Drop," 233

Red light district, 95 , 137 , 268

Reed, Mrs. Francis, 286 , 315

Reffell, Mary, 271

Reformers:

evangelical/moral, 65 , 228 ;

Mayor Wood's reform program, 109 -14, 212 -13. See also Moral reform/reformers

"Respectable" residents, interacting with prostitutes, 18 , 29 , 35 , 133 , 134 , 191 , 194 , 202 , 203 , 210 , 378 n.13

Restelle, Madame (Ann Lohman), 23 , 141 , 237 -38, 240

"Restellism," 23

Rhinggold, Benjamin, 271

Rice, Elizabeth, 131

Rice, Hannah, 43

Richmond Hill Theatre, 200

Ridgeway, James, 292

Ridgley, Kate, 105 , 157 -58, 220 -21, 222 , 285 n. 18

Riots, in New York City, 147 -48

Roberts, Mary Jane, 313

Roberts, Nathan, 230

Robins, Mrs., 311

Robinson, Jane, 228

Robinson, Mary, 185

Robinson, Richard (alias Frank Rivers), 10 -11, 34 -35, 249 , 254 , 261 -64, 274 , 300 -301, 394 n.81;

correspondence of, 257 , 275 , 278 -80, 297 , 331 -35

Robinson, Solon (Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated ), 218

Rollough, George (alias Black Hawk), 231

Roper, Mr., 310

Rosen, Ruth, 4 -5, 33 , 349 n.44

Rosenzweig, Jacob, 237

Rowe, Harriet, 309 -10

Rowe, Kate, 180 , 309 -10

Rue, John, 270

Rural women. See Prostitution, causes of: entrapment and trickery; Women, nineteenth-century: as victims

Ryerson, Margaret, 151