Author Archives: Nancy Deville

THE STIGMA OF SLAVERY RUNS DEEP

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 23, 2009
People ask, “How do you get your ideas?” The idea for a story on “white slavery” came from my hippie hitchhiking trip to India in 1968-69. But then researching the subject wasn’t that easy. I was living in Santa Barbara the time. It was 1990, before Google searches and instantaneous Internet access to research.
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WHITE SLAVERY IS AN ARCHAIC TERM

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 22, 2009
During the ten months I traveled to, throughout, and back from India was the first time I heard the term “white slavery.” Girls I met along the way told me that I should be careful because white slavers were after hippie girls. Of course I wasn’t careful one bit, but thankfully I didn’t get swept into the ugly net of traffickers.
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