Category Archives: Modern Slavery

NO ONE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WHITE SLAVERY

By Nancy Deville | Published: November 25, 2009

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.

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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