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Karma - A novel by Nancy DevilleI’m Nancy Deville
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Category Archives: Women’s Issues
FROM WHITE SLAVERY TO SEX TRAFFICKING
It was Kathleen Barry who taught me that the term “white slavery” had been abandoned for the more encompassing terms “trafficking in women and children,” and “sexual slavery.”
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NO ONE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WHITE SLAVERY
In 1990, twenty-two years after I first heard about “white slavery” and thought to use it as a subject for writing my first novel, I tried to research the subject at the library. After being shocked and repulsed by the fact that the Library of Congress considered rape to be prostitution, I pressed on to see if there were any books on the subject.
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THE STIGMA OF SLAVERY RUNS DEEP
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
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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WOMEN ARE NOT EQUAL YET