White slavery

White slavery, white slave trade, white Slave Traffic and white slave historically refer to the enslavement of Europeans by non-Europeans, as part of the Arab, Barbary and Ottoman slave trade, as well as Europeans such as the Vikings slaves.

The term can also mean sexual slavery, including forced prostitution and human trafficking.

The term may also refer to captivity narratives, stories of people captured by enemies whom they generally consider uncivilized, e.g.

• Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade, a 1978 Italian sexploitation film
• White Slave (film), a 1985 Italian horror film
• White Slaves (film), a 1937 German film directed by Karl Anton
• White Slave Ship, a 1962 film
• White Slave Traffic (film), a 1926 German silent film directed by Jaap Speyer

The term also appears in legal acts directed against the practice:

• International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic
• White-Slave Traffic Act, also called Mann Act, a 1910 United States federal law

The term may also refer to

• White slave propaganda, the use of light-skinned African American slave children in abolitionist propaganda in the antebellum United States
• White Slave, autobiography of chef Marco Pierre White
• The White Slave, a play by Bartley Campbell