white slaveryn.

1804 Christian Observer Mar. 153/1 This White Slavery, like the black, is evidently an injury to fair and lawful commerce, for the time spent in..overworking these fair slaves might be better employed in promoting..health, beauty, simplicity, modesty, and industry.

1816 Q. Rev. Apr. 145 The abolition of white slavery would naturally obtain the preference over that of the blacks.

1835 Edinb. Rev. July 463 These representations of the ruinous effects of what has been called white slavery..were at length embodied in Mr. Sadler's famous Factory Report.

1857 W. Acton Prostitution vii. 94 The natural question, ‘Why does not this woman escape from this white slavery?’ is best answered by other queries—Whither can she fly? What can she do?

1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xxii. 271 Convicted on white slavery charges.

1999 J. Morton Sex, Crimes & Misdemeanours iii. xvi. 195 In the early part of the twentieth century the linked topics of prostitution and White Slavery were high on the agenda of any self-respecting puritan organisation.