white slaven.

Brit.

/ˌwʌɪt ˈsleɪv/, U.S.

/ˌ(h)waɪt ˈsleɪv/

Forms: see white adj. and n. and slave n.¹ and adj.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Spanish lexical item. Etymons: white adj., slave n.¹

Etymology: < white adj. + slave n.¹, originally after Spanish esclava blanca (female) white person who is a slave (1549).

A white person who is the property of another person; spec. a woman or girl sold or forced into prostitution, often abroad. Also: a white person who is treated like a slave, esp. with regards to conditions of employment. Now somewhat dated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > white person doing menial labour

white slave1622

white nigger1828

society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > white

white slave1622

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 322 This Gentle-woman had a certaine faire white slaue [Sp. una esclava blanca] (none I wisse of these blacke Moores, but a handsome well-fauoured Wench) to her Maid-seruant, whom for a long time, I tooke to bee free-borne.

1789 Deb. Congr. U.S. 13 May (1834) 350 He hoped it would comprehend the white slaves as well as black, who were imported from all the jails of Europe.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xxxviii. 150 Let us leave to England..the distinction..of being the white slaves of the rest of the world, and doing for it all its dirty work.

1840 T. Gordon tr. W. Menzel German Lit. IV. 87 Seume..like many thousands of ‘white slaves’, that is, German subjects, who were then sold by their princes to the Dutch or English, had been shipped for the colonies.

1870 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 July 106/2 How far the unfortunate Parisian prostitute is right in fearing..enrolment among the ranks of those ‘white slaves’, may be learnt from the words of M. Lefort.

1889 G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 192 The white slaves of the sweater.

1913 C. Pankhurst Great Scourge p. viii Regulation of vice and enforced medical inspection of the White Slaves.

2004 Independent 12 Aug. 29/1 Yet..there was a third slave trade. This involved up to a million Europeans, captured by ‘Barbary corsairs’... Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli became the major markets for these ‘white slaves’.

Compounds

General attributive as white slave trade, white slave trader, white slave traffic, etc.

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1784 Edinb. Advertiser 15 June 380/3 Fifty four emigrants..died... Such were the dreadful consequences which ensued from the White Slave Trade, carried on between this country [sc. Ireland] and America.

1814 Orthodox Jrnl. Sept. 328/1 Nor did they..exert themselves..to obtain the abolition of this white slave traffic.., although the mass of natives of Ireland are..groaning under the most oppressive tyranny.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 2/2 Young girls..being spirited abroad by the white-slave traders.

1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv. 303 The seller of adulterated milk.., the race-track ‘tout’, the procurer, the white-slave agent.

1917 A. Huxley Let. May (1969) 125 I am safe from these body-snatchers, kidnappers, baby killers and white slave traffickers, the Recruiters.

2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 257 There was a man once.., who had tried to spike her drink in an effort to sell her into the white slave trade.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white slave
释义	white slaven. Brit. /ˌwʌɪt ˈsleɪv/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt ˈsleɪv/ Forms: see white adj. and n. and slave n.¹ and adj.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Spanish lexical item. Etymons: white adj., slave n.¹ Etymology: < white adj. + slave n.¹, originally after Spanish esclava blanca (female) white person who is a slave (1549). A white person who is the property of another person; spec. a woman or girl sold or forced into prostitution, often abroad. Also: a white person who is treated like a slave, esp. with regards to conditions of employment. Now somewhat dated. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > white person doing menial labour white slave1622 white nigger1828 society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > white white slave1622 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 322 This Gentle-woman had a certaine faire white slaue [Sp. una esclava blanca] (none I wisse of these blacke Moores, but a handsome well-fauoured Wench) to her Maid-seruant, whom for a long time, I tooke to bee free-borne. 1789 Deb. Congr. U.S. 13 May (1834) 350 He hoped it would comprehend the white slaves as well as black, who were imported from all the jails of Europe. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xxxviii. 150 Let us leave to England..the distinction..of being the white slaves of the rest of the world, and doing for it all its dirty work. 1840 T. Gordon tr. W. Menzel German Lit. IV. 87 Seume..like many thousands of ‘white slaves’, that is, German subjects, who were then sold by their princes to the Dutch or English, had been shipped for the colonies. 1870 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 July 106/2 How far the unfortunate Parisian prostitute is right in fearing..enrolment among the ranks of those ‘white slaves’, may be learnt from the words of M. Lefort. 1889 G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 192 The white slaves of the sweater. 1913 C. Pankhurst Great Scourge p. viii Regulation of vice and enforced medical inspection of the White Slaves. 2004 Independent 12 Aug. 29/1 Yet..there was a third slave trade. This involved up to a million Europeans, captured by ‘Barbary corsairs’... Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli became the major markets for these ‘white slaves’. Compounds General attributive as white slave trade, white slave trader, white slave traffic, etc. ΚΠ 1784 Edinb. Advertiser 15 June 380/3 Fifty four emigrants..died... Such were the dreadful consequences which ensued from the White Slave Trade, carried on between this country [sc. Ireland] and America. 1814 Orthodox Jrnl. Sept. 328/1 Nor did they..exert themselves..to obtain the abolition of this white slave traffic.., although the mass of natives of Ireland are..groaning under the most oppressive tyranny. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 2/2 Young girls..being spirited abroad by the white-slave traders. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv. 303 The seller of adulterated milk.., the race-track ‘tout’, the procurer, the white-slave agent. 1917 A. Huxley Let. May (1969) 125 I am safe from these body-snatchers, kidnappers, baby killers and white slave traffickers, the Recruiters. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 257 There was a man once.., who had tried to spike her drink in an effort to sell her into the white slave trade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1622
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