| 单词 | white slave trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite slave trade General attributive as white slave trade, white slave trader, white slave traffic, etc. ΚΠ 1784 Edinb. Advertiser 15 June 380/3 Fifty four emigrants..died... Such were the dreadful consequences which ensued from the White Slave Trade, carried on between this country [sc. Ireland] and America. 1814 Orthodox Jrnl. Sept. 328/1 Nor did they..exert themselves..to obtain the abolition of this white slave traffic.., although the mass of natives of Ireland are..groaning under the most oppressive tyranny. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 2/2 Young girls..being spirited abroad by the white-slave traders. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv. 303 The seller of adulterated milk.., the race-track ‘tout’, the procurer, the white-slave agent. 1917 A. Huxley Let. May (1969) 125 I am safe from these body-snatchers, kidnappers, baby killers and white slave traffickers, the Recruiters. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 257 There was a man once.., who had tried to spike her drink in an effort to sell her into the white slave trade. < as lemmas |
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