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- Dictionarywhite slav¦ery/ˌ(h)wīt ˈslāv(ə)rē/
noun
- 1. the practice of tricking or forcing white women to work as prostitutes: archaic "the prohibition of white slavery"
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White slavery (also white slave trade or white slave trafficking) refers to the enslavement of any of the world's European ethnic groups throughout human history, whether perpetrated by non-Europeans or by other Europeans.
Nov 16, 2017 · 'White slavery': the origins of the anti-trafficking movement. A nineteenth century drive to protect the morality of white women created the concept of ‘human trafficking’, and its legacies...
The meaning of WHITE SLAVERY is forced or involuntary sex work.
Aug 19, 2019 · Interracial abolition efforts grew in force as enslaved people, free black people and some white citizens fought for the end of slavery and a more inclusive definition of freedom.
In a new book, Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University, developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found.
Jun 23, 2021 · “White slavery traffic” was an expansion of the prostitution that spread throughout the world in the first years of the twentieth century, following the massive emigration to the New World and resulting from the growing poverty and misery of European women in the age of industrialization.
Sep 4, 2020 · How is white supremacy connected to the history of slavery? YACOVONE: White supremacy precedes the origins of the United States. Every aspect of social interaction, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, was dominated by white identity, and white supremacy became an expression of American identity.
Oct 27, 2009 · An abolitionist, as the name implies, is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century. More specifically, these individuals sought the immediate and full emancipation of all...
3 White Slaves in the Late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Imagination; 4 Slave Narratives as Literature; 5 Slavery and the Emergence of the African American Novel; 6 Proslavery Fiction; 7 The Poetry of Slavery; 8 Reading Slavery and “Classic” American Literature; 9 Slavery’s Performance-Texts
Aug 19, 2019 · How white women’s “investment” in slavery has shaped America today. White women are sometimes seen as bystanders to slavery. A historian explains why that’s wrong.
