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

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Etymology

Origin of white slave

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

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white slave

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

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023

“I’m playing a white slave owner, and it feels weird because I know that parts of my family have been slaves,” Redchild said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 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

There will also be found simple directions to be followed by the citizen who becomes acquainted with a white slave case and who desires to have it properly prosecuted.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Bell

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