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Meaning of "white slavery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WHITE SLAVERY

white slavery  [waɪt ˈsleɪvərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WHITE SLAVERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
White slavery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WHITE SLAVERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

White slavery

White slavery or White Slaves may refer to: ▪ The enslavement in the Arab slave trade of peoples other than black Africans, such as Europeans, Turks, Iranians, and Amazigh, especially during that trade's early days ▪ A term for human trafficking, used to distinguish it from the system of slavery that had been imposed on black people in the Americas. ▪ A euphemism for forced prostitution, especially in the context of human trafficking ▪ White Slaves, the English title for the 1937 German film Weiße Sklaven directed by Karl Anton ▪ White slave propaganda, used to describe the use of light-skinned African American slave children to elicit sympathy in the North...

Definition of white slavery in the English dictionary

The definition of white slavery in the dictionary is the condition of having been forced into prostitution.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WHITE SLAVERY


antislavery
ˌæntɪˈsleɪvərɪ
bravery
ˈbreɪvərɪ
delivery
dɪˈlɪvərɪ
engravery
ɪnˈɡreɪvərɪ
flavory
ˈfleɪvərɪ
flavoury
ˈfleɪvərɪ
ivory
ˈaɪvərɪ
knavery
ˈneɪvərɪ
livery
ˈlɪvərɪ
proslavery
ˌprəʊˈsleɪvərɪ
quavery
ˈkweɪvərɪ
redelivery
ˌriːdɪˈlɪvərɪ
salivary
ˈsælɪvərɪ
Savery
ˈseɪvərɪ
savory
ˈseɪvərɪ
savoury
ˈseɪvərɪ
slavery
ˈsleɪvərɪ
special-delivery
ˌspɛʃəldɪˈlɪvərɪ
unsavoury
ʌnˈseɪvərɪ
wavery
ˈweɪvərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHITE SLAVERY

white sale
white sandalwood
white sapphire
white sauce
White Sea
white settler
white shark
white slave
white snakeroot
white spirit
white spruce
white squall
white stick
white Stilton
White supremacist
White supremacy
white tea tree
white tie

WORDS THAT END LIKE WHITE SLAVERY

beavery
carvery
cash on delivery
discovery
every
express delivery
home delivery
Medal of Bravery
pizza delivery
recorded delivery
recovery
self-discovery
servery
severy
shivery
silvery
special delivery
thievery
very
waste heat recovery

Synonyms and antonyms of white slavery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «white slavery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WHITE SLAVERY

Find out the translation of white slavery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of white slavery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «white slavery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

白奴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la trata de blancas
570 millions of speakers

English

white slavery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सफेद गुलामी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرقيق الأبيض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

белое рабство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escravidão branca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাদা দাসত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la traite des blanches
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perhambaan putih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

moderner Sklavenhandel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

白い奴隷
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흰색 노예
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Putih perbudakan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chế độ nô lệ trắng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெள்ளை அடிமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पांढरी गुलामी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Beyaz kölelik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tratta delle bianche
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

białe niewolnictwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

біле рабство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sclavie alb
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λευκής σαρκός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wit slawerny
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vita slaveriet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hvit slaveri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of white slavery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WHITE SLAVERY»

The term «white slavery» is regularly used and occupies the 107.279 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WHITE SLAVERY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about white slavery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHITE SLAVERY»

Discover the use of white slavery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to white slavery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the ...
This is a study that digs deeply into this "other" slavery, the bondage of Europeans by north-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas.
Robert C. Davis, 2004
2
Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in ...
A comparative study of slavery in Brazil and the United States, first published in 1971, looking at the demographic, economic, and cultural factors that allowed black people in Brazil to gain economically and retain their African culture, ...
Carl N. Degler, 1971
3
White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled ...
What the essays have in common is their gendered connection to work, family, and the rise of increasingly interventionist nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina.
Donna J. Guy, 2000
4
From Dance Hall to White Slavery
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
H. W. Lytle, 2010
5
White Slavery
White Slavery is an explosive story involving the battle of the rich against the poor. White Slavery is an economic slavery. The story depicts a factious well-to-do family that sides with the poor.
Jerome Hipscher, 2004
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White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, ...
" These stories about forced prostitution provided an emotionally powerful justification for segregation, as well as other forms of racial and sexual boundary maintenance in urban America.
Brian Donovan, 2005
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From Dance Hall to White Slavery
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
John Dillon, 2011
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White Slavery in Colonial America: and Other Documented ...
In essence, white slaves were initially used but Africans became the final solution to exploited manual labor in the colonies. Thus, the importation of Africans to the American colonies on a large scale began; aka the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
9
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves ...
This is a saga of exploitation and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.
Don Jordan, Michael Walsh, 2011
10
Plutocracy Or American White Slavery: A Politico Social Novel
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Thomas Norwood, 2005

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHITE SLAVERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term white slavery is used in the context of the following news items.
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The white man's burden revisited
Abolitionist feminism extends this 'burden' to white middle-class and elite women. Rooted in the 19th century white slavery discourse that spawned maternal ... «Open Democracy, Jan 15»
2
White slavery 'panic' swept Maine a century ago
“TWO SAVED FROM WHITE SLAVERY,” reported a headline on March 19, 1910, in the Bangor Daily News. The story's lead summed up the shocking situation. «Bangor Daily News, Mar 14»

REFERENCE
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