white slave
noun dated
A white woman tricked or forced into prostitution and taken to a foreign country for this purpose: [as modifier]: a white-slave trader...
- 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.
- 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.
Derivatives
white slaver
- The movie tries so hard to make them perverse white slavers that they become eccentric, not demonic.
- Here Coelho is delightfully ambiguous, letting us believe that Roger, the Swiss, may be a white slaver.
- Sophia wondered if she was the victim of white slavers.
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.
- He kidnaps the club's most popular girls and forces Queen into white slavery.
- As white slavery writers frequently concluded, prostitution was a business run by men for men.