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white slavery

noun

  1. the condition of or traffic in white slaves.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white slavery1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences

As soon as white slavery began to be abolished, black slavery commenced.

The whole system was one of white slavery of the most oppressive kind.

Then there was the recent Mann Law aimed at white-slavery but a more effective weapon for blackmailers.

They gave trial by jury: they stopped white slavery in the Australian colonies, and thus in the end transportation.

Thus the religionists were most active during the period when a condition approximating white slavery existed.

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