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white slave

noun

  1. a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  2. a white person held as a slave.


white slave

noun

  1. a girl or woman forced or sold into prostitution
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • white slavery, noun
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Other Words From

  • white-slave adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of white slave1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences

His father, Henry Taylor, the son of a white slave owner and black mother, was a businessman.

By the white slave trade is meant commerce in white women and girls for wicked purposes.

American citizenship in our large cities allows the white slave traders an astounding amount of political influence.

In 1893, during my missionary service in India, a clique of white slave traders was discovered in Calcutta.

An ordinance of 1635 condemned all men engaged in what we now call the white slave trade to the galleys for life.

Those were the first white slave traders of whom I, a young missionary, had ever heard.

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