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White slave   /waɪt sleɪv/   Listen
White slave

noun
1.
A woman sold into prostitution.






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"White slave" Quotes from Famous Books



... speaker was as black as the ace of spades,—being a sturdy specimen, the knave of clubs would perhaps be a fitter representative,—but the dark freeman looked at the white slave with the pitiful, yet puzzled expression I have so often seen on the faces of our wisest men, when this tangled question of Slavery presents itself, asking to be ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various

... so came to pass that the slave, after bringing him the tray of food went away and left the trap door open: so Ala al-Din came forth from the vault and went in to his mother, with whom was a company of women of rank. As they sat talking, behold, in came upon them the youth as he were a white slave drunken[FN31] for the excess of his beauty; and when they saw him, they veiled their faces and said to his mother, "Allah requite thee, O such an one! How canst thou let this strange Mameluke in upon us? Knowest thou not that ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... though, if you were right. If you have any investigators to spare, they might try to find out who she is and something of her history. I will give them a copy of these notes which I intend to turn over to the Department of Justice men who have been making the white slave investigation ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve

... As regards the white slave traffic, the men engaged in it, and the women too, are far worse criminals than any ordinary murderers can be. For them there is need of such a law as that recently adopted in England through the efforts of Arthur Lee, M.P., a law which includes whipping for the male offenders. ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt



Words linked to "White slave" :   prostitute, whore, sporting lady, fancy woman, bawd, lady of pleasure, cocotte, cyprian, tart, working girl, woman of the street, harlot



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