White slavery

White slavery, white slave trade, white Slave Traffic and white slave refer to the enslavement of Europeans by non-Europeans, mostly in reference to historical events such as the Arab, Barbary and Ottoman slave trade, as well as by other Europeans such the Vikings salves. Many different types of white people have been enslaved.

History

Slaves of European origin were present in ancient Rome and the Ottoman Empire. Many different types of white people were enslaved.

On the European continent under feudalism, there were various forms of status applying to people who were indentured or forced to labor without pay. Under Muslim rule, the Arab slave trades that included Caucasian captives were often fueled by raids into European territories or were taken as children in the form of a blood tax from the families of citizens of conquered territories to serve the empire for a variety of functions.

In the mid-19th century, the term 'white slavery' was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the Barbary slave trade. The modern legal term typically applies more narrowly to sexual slavery, including forced prostitution and human trafficking.

Slavery of white people is usually not depicted or mentioned in the politically correct mainstream media except in connection with slavery in Ancient Rome, and when it is, it is with less focus on the race of victims or perpetrators. This gives the impression that white people have selectively enslaved black people exclusively due to racism and that white people have themselves not suffered due to slavery.

Other definitions

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