white slave

American  

noun

1. a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.

2. a white person held as a slave.

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white slave British  

noun

1. a girl or woman forced or sold into prostitution

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Other Word Forms

• white slavery
  noun
• white-slave
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of white slave

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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white slave

By definition, there were no "good" or "kind" white slave owners.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023

It journeys to the medieval court of Suleiman the Magnificent and consort Roxelana, who rose from white slave to sultan’s wife and changed the Ottoman Empire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

And how in 1861 three black men — Shepard Mallory, Frank Baker and James Townsend — escaped white slave owners and demanded the federal troops at Fort Monroe give them refuge.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019

The ratio of blacks to whites in Charleston was the product not of black invasion but of the colonial greed of white slave traders.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2019

That morning George Foster had risen from his straw bed a miserable white slave, hopeless, heartless, and down at spiritual zero—or below it.

From The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story by Twidle, Arthur