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

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

Rose Carter, she learned, was not a white slave owner but was actually a free woman of color.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2018

There is no longer any doubt in the minds of the well informed that there exists a great white slave trade in the City of New York.

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