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

See Examples For:

white slave

But it would have been disingenuous to say there was a white slave owner and he treated this woman terrifically.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023

In her revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Piano Lesson,” LaTanya Richardson Jackson decided to literalize the ghost of the white slave owner, Sutter.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

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

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

Lucy felt her blood boil when she thought of all this, and determined that she would leave no expedient untried to free this white slave, this unfortunate thrall.

From Sir Tom by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)