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:

    “Kind Sir: Lost and of your same kind
    I have turned around twice with my eyes sealed
    and the wood were white and my night mind
    saw such strange happenings, untold and unreal.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “He was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)