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 do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro ... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)