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:
“It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,—he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,—and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever [I] hear anyone, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)