white slaver
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- noun
- /ˈwaɪt ˈsleɪvər/
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proxeneta
- Stories of white slavers trafficking women for profit have shocked communities nationwide.
Examples
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Often local tribes did the actual kidnapping, but it was white slavers who shipped them across the Atlantic, and white plantation owners who created the demand.
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She was a survivor who bravely spoke out against the white slavers that exploited her and countless others.
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Booze is the way white slavers rob the virtue of 60,000 American girls every year!
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The bootleggers, the white slavers, and that newspaper are tryin' to scare me and Sister out of town!
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Slaves who lived on the reservation did not roam far, as they were vulnerable to predatory groups of white slavers.
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They wouldn't have been kidnapped by other black tribes if there hadn't been demand from white slavers.
Blog text (1) -
The police launched an operation to catch a notorious white slaver who had been preying on vulnerable women.
Synonyms
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A person who buys and sells people as slaves
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A person who buys and sells people as slaves
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A man who finds and controls people who sell sex and takes their money
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A person who forces others to live and work without freedom
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A man who finds customers for prostitutes and keeps their money
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A person who finds clients for prostitutes
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A person who buys and sells people to force them to work without freedom
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'slaver' clearly denotes someone who enslaves or trades in people and 'white' serves as a modifier, so a learner who knows both words could infer a person involved in trafficking related to whiteness. However, the specific historical/sexualized sense—forcing (typically white) women into prostitution as part of organized operations—is a narrower, culturally specific meaning (and potentially ambiguous about whether 'white' describes the victims or the perpetrator) that is not fully predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
White slaver comes from the older phrase 'white slavery', a shocking name used in the late 1800s and early 1900s for people who forced mainly white women into prostitution. So a white slaver is someone who kidnaps, tricks, or controls women and makes them work as prostitutes.