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

See Examples For:

white slave

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

And how in 1861 three black men — Shepard Mallory, Frank Baker and James Townsend — escaped white slave owners and demanded the federal troops at Fort Monroe give them refuge.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019

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

But notwithstanding the unequivocal declarations of Supreme Courts, there are nearly always politicians whose political creed is learned from the white slave trader, and the serpentine woman who keeps the glittering vestibule of hell.

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