Scholars interested in the history of international thought usually assume that the ideas of racial equality and shared humanity were not officially fused in global discourse until the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). By contrast, this article maintains that a “nonpolitical” version of this fusion occurred three decades earlier when the League of Nations substituted the term “traffic in women and children” for what had, until then, been known as “the white slave traffic.” Unlike the League’s mandate system–which explicitly relied upon a Continue reading → Continue reading →