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

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

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

Some of the earliest gold rushers were in fact white slave owners who brought enslaved African Americans with them to the mines.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

She defied white slave hunters — slipping past them on at least a dozen forays to rescue about 70 slaves as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2019

“Only try to get news of a white slave who was taken at Khartoum, Excellency,” said the old man calmly.

From In the Mahdi's Grasp by Speed, Lancelot