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:
“Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ...”
—June Jordan (b. 1936)
“It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said, and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn’t. And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)