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:

    “You are as gold
    as the half-ripe grain
    that merges to gold again.
    as white as the white rain....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ... and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)