White Slavery

White slavery may refer to:

  • Arab slave trade, which involved the enslavement of many European peoples, often captured by Barbary pirates
  • Sexual slavery, not in reference to the race of the victims (who can be of any race), but to distinguish it from the system of slavery that had been imposed on black people in the Americas
  • Convicts constituted a significant group of colonists in colonial America and Australia and were more often treated as indentured servants
  • Redlegs, the class of poor whites that lived on colonial Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and other Caribbean islands
  • White Slave Traffic (film), a 1926 German silent film directed by Jaap Speyer
  • White Slaves (film), the English title for the 1937 German film Weiße Sklaven directed by Karl Anton

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or slavery:

    “I have actually gotten to like fear ...”
    —Pearl White (1889–1938)

    “The general review of the past tends to satisfy me with my political life. No man, I suppose, ever came up to his ideal. The first half [of] my political life was first to resist the increase of slavery and secondly to destroy it.... The second half of my political life has been to rebuild, and to get rid of the despotic and corrupting tendencies and the animosities of the war, and other legacies of slavery.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)