"Promised Land" is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of "Wabash Cannonball", an American folk song. The song was first recorded in this version by Berry in 1964 for his album St. Louis
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The Mann Act, previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910. It is named after Congressman James Robert Mann of Illinois.
Promised Land (Chuck Berry song)
…by Berry in 1964 for his album St. Louis to Liverpool. Released in December 1964, it was Berry's fourth single issued following his prison term for a Mann Act conviction. The record peaked at number 41 in the Billboard charts on January 16, 1965. Berry wrote the song while in prison, and borrowed an atlas…
"Does her mother know the character of the place and the man she is with?" —The War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest Albert Bell, 1910