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white slave
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white slave
n.
A woman held unwillingly for purposes of prostitution.

white slave
n
a girl or woman forced or sold into prostitution
white slavery  n
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Noun1.white slave - a woman sold into prostitutionwhite slave - a woman sold into prostitution      
bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money


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rushed the United States White-Slave Traffic Act (now known as the Mann Act) through Congress.
Specifically, I analyze the intertwined histories of two federal statutory provisions that created explicit legal categories of illicit sex: the "immoral purpose" provisions of the Immigration Act of 1907 and the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (also known as the Mann Act).
Sims prepared for Mann, see "Self-crimination Under the White-Slave Law," Congressional Record, 61st Cong.
 
 
 
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