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单词 white slave
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Definition of white slave in English:

white slave

noun
archaic
  • A white woman tricked or forced into prostitution, typically one taken to a foreign country for this purpose.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And, unlike the white slave traders who, more than likely, did not speak the language of the slaves or attempt to communicate with them, his countrymen spoke with the slaves themselves.
    • On the floor above lived the white slave traders.
    • Neither anti-vice reformers nor white slavery activists particularly wanted to save the white slave.
    • Exploitive exposés of the white slave trade were a poverty row film staple since the 1930s, but what sets Olga's Girls apart from its solemn predecessors is a shameless faux-documentary tone.
    • This is billed as the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves which unearths another forgotten chapter of history, the story of Africa's white slaves.
    • There were plenty of white slaves in the South, particularly the Carolinas.
    • And what motivates Robbins, a rich white slave owner and Henry's former owner, to help Henry succeed?
    • He was summoned to treat a wounded man who turned out to be a rebel, was arrested with his patient, and sent to the West Indies as a white slave.
    • Scanlan and Morris reworked the story - which traces Millie's search for a rich husband while staying at a boardinghouse run by white slave traders - and Scanlan penned lyrics for 10 new songs.
    • Reformers intended the white slave traffic acts to disrupt the movement of women into red-light districts in order to halt prostitution's production.
    • In 1909, following Charles Crittenton's death, Kate Waller Barrett assumed presidency of the national organization, involving it in the crusade to eliminate red-light districts and the traffic in white slaves.
    • Thanks to his continually replenished stock of white slaves, he succeeded in his ambition to outdo the Versailles Palace of the French Sun King, Louis XIV.
    • Director George Loane Tucker devoted most of the first act of ‘Traffic in Souls’ to following the flow of cash up the corporate ladder of the white slave trade.
    • William Robbins, a neighboring white slave master, arrives at the Townsend plantation with his half-black illegitimate son and daughter.
    • Ironically, the local white slave traffic acts, which were only supposed to supplement the Mann Act, proved a more effective tool for fighting commercialized vice.
    • In particular, antivice reformers argued that the white slave's financial plight kept her ‘in the life’ during the critical transition from innocent dupe to unresisting prostitute.
    • For two centuries, his forebears had been white slaves in North Africa, captives in North America or, like him, prisoners of war in South Asia.
    • The daughter of a white slave owner and one of the black women by whom he had many ‘illegitimate’ children, Antoinette is caught in a painful mixed race limbo.
    • Maurice, seeing the slave's light skin did not flinch, he had seen and heard tales of white slaves.
    • A beautiful Cuban princess finds herself toiling in a Russian gulag following her kidnap by white slave traders.

Derivatives

  • white slaver

  • noun
    archaic
    • A person who tricks or forces a white woman into prostitution.

      Here Coelho is delightfully ambiguous, letting us believe that Roger, the Swiss, may be a white slaver.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The movie tries so hard to make them perverse white slavers that they become eccentric, not demonic.
      • Sophia wondered if she was the victim of white slavers.
  • white slavery

  • noun ˌwʌɪt ˈsleɪv(ə)riˌ(h)waɪt ˈsleɪv(ə)ri
    mass nounarchaic
    • 1The practice of tricking or forcing white women to work as prostitutes.

      the prohibition of white slavery
      1. 1.1 The state or condition of being forced into prostitution as a white woman.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As white slavery writers frequently concluded, prostitution was a business run by men for men.
      • He kidnaps the club's most popular girls and forces Queen into white slavery.
      • In this context, Hugo used white slavery to represent state-regulated prostitution, particularly the medical examination of prostitutes required by Britain's Contagious Diseases Acts.
      • some of his ancestors were sold into white slavery
 
 

Definition of white slave in US English:

white slave

nounˌ(h)wīt ˈslāv
archaic
  • A white woman tricked or forced into prostitution, typically one taken to a foreign country for this purpose.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And, unlike the white slave traders who, more than likely, did not speak the language of the slaves or attempt to communicate with them, his countrymen spoke with the slaves themselves.
    • Scanlan and Morris reworked the story - which traces Millie's search for a rich husband while staying at a boardinghouse run by white slave traders - and Scanlan penned lyrics for 10 new songs.
    • On the floor above lived the white slave traders.
    • Ironically, the local white slave traffic acts, which were only supposed to supplement the Mann Act, proved a more effective tool for fighting commercialized vice.
    • This is billed as the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves which unearths another forgotten chapter of history, the story of Africa's white slaves.
    • He was summoned to treat a wounded man who turned out to be a rebel, was arrested with his patient, and sent to the West Indies as a white slave.
    • Director George Loane Tucker devoted most of the first act of ‘Traffic in Souls’ to following the flow of cash up the corporate ladder of the white slave trade.
    • Reformers intended the white slave traffic acts to disrupt the movement of women into red-light districts in order to halt prostitution's production.
    • Neither anti-vice reformers nor white slavery activists particularly wanted to save the white slave.
    • The daughter of a white slave owner and one of the black women by whom he had many ‘illegitimate’ children, Antoinette is caught in a painful mixed race limbo.
    • William Robbins, a neighboring white slave master, arrives at the Townsend plantation with his half-black illegitimate son and daughter.
    • Maurice, seeing the slave's light skin did not flinch, he had seen and heard tales of white slaves.
    • For two centuries, his forebears had been white slaves in North Africa, captives in North America or, like him, prisoners of war in South Asia.
    • Exploitive exposés of the white slave trade were a poverty row film staple since the 1930s, but what sets Olga's Girls apart from its solemn predecessors is a shameless faux-documentary tone.
    • And what motivates Robbins, a rich white slave owner and Henry's former owner, to help Henry succeed?
    • There were plenty of white slaves in the South, particularly the Carolinas.
    • A beautiful Cuban princess finds herself toiling in a Russian gulag following her kidnap by white slave traders.
    • In particular, antivice reformers argued that the white slave's financial plight kept her ‘in the life’ during the critical transition from innocent dupe to unresisting prostitute.
    • In 1909, following Charles Crittenton's death, Kate Waller Barrett assumed presidency of the national organization, involving it in the crusade to eliminate red-light districts and the traffic in white slaves.
    • Thanks to his continually replenished stock of white slaves, he succeeded in his ambition to outdo the Versailles Palace of the French Sun King, Louis XIV.
 
 
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