In North Africa, the main slave markets were in Morocco, Algiers, Tripoli and Cairo. Sales were held in public places or in souks. Potential buyers made a careful examination of the "merchandise": they checked the state of health of a person who was often standing naked with wrists bound together. Prices varied according to the slave's quality. White women were considered more valuable than other women. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade#Slave_markets_and_fairs [Jun 2006]
Definition
Forced prostitution. --AHD
White slavery is a 19th century term for a form of slavery involving the sexual abuse of women held as captives and forced into prostitution.
Although this form of abuse did occur in reality (and still does: see the article sexual slavery for this topic), the name "white slavery" is usually used to refer to the original use of the term in a moral panic in late 19th century and early 20th century United States, where there was a perception that this form of abuse was a danger to every young woman. In this moral panic, the selected scapegoats were Chinese immigrants, who were stereotyped and demonized as white slavers (eg: Thoroughly Modern Millie).
Such accusations have also been frequently applied against Jewish men and appear in a great deal of anti-Semitic propaganda.
White slavery did not originally refer to race; in modern usage, however, it often refers to the sexual slavery of white women by non-white men.
The term white slavery is also used in revisionist and white supremacy literature to refer to any slavery of people with light skin. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery [Apr 2005]
Circassian beauties
In 1856 The New York Daily Times reported that a consequence of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus was a glut of beautiful Circassian women on the Constantinople slave market, and that this was causing prices of slaves in general to plummet. At the time, this region was reputed by less reliable sources to be the source of the purest Caucasian stock, producing the most beautiful white women, prized in Turkish harems.
The combination of the popular issues of slavery, the Orient, and sexual titillation gave this report some notoriety at the time. Circus leader P. T. Barnum capitalized on this interest, displaying a "Circassian Beauty" at his American Museum in 1865. The trend spread, with supposedly Circassian women featured in dime museums and travelling medicine shows, sometimes known as "Moss-haired girls". Most likely these were local girls hired by the shows. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_beauties
White slavery as moral panic
White slavery scare
In the mid-19th century in the U.S., there was a white slavery scare which suggested that large numbers of white women were being kidnapped and forced into prostitution. The prevalence of this practice was greatly exaggerated due to xenophobia, and this phenomenon is generally regarded today as having been an example of a moral panic.
In the mid-19th century in the U.S., there was a white slavery scare which suggested that large numbers of white women were being kidnapped and forced into prostitution. The prevalence of this practice was greatly exaggerated due to xenophobia, and this phenomenon is generally regarded today as having been an example of a moral panic.
In fact, at that time, the US victims of sexual slavery were overwhelmingly women of African descent, held as slaves, often purchased with sexual exploitation as the primary goal. A supposedly true story of one such girl, purchased as a sexual slave when she was fourteen, is told in Celia, A Slave by Melton A. Mclaurin, and such practice is also widely referred to in other literature discussing the era, for instance Roots by Alex Haley. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_slavery#Sexual_slavery_in_North_Am... [Jun 2005]
Mann Act (USA) prohibited so-called white slavery
The Mann Act of 1910 prohibited so-called white slavery - the practice of European girls working in American bordellos. It also banned the interstate transport of females for immoral purposes. Its primary intent was to address prostitution and immorality.
The Mann Act gets its name from James Robert Mann, an American lawmaker.
The law has come under criticism from civil libertarians who feel the law is and undo federal infringement and violates the states’ discretion in setting their own age of consent laws. Some have also charged that enforcement of the law has been racially biased, since many of the more notable people prosecuted have been successful African Americans.
The first person prosecuted under the act was heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, who encouraged a woman to leave a brothel and travel with him to another state. Though he later married the girl, and took her away from a brothel, he was nevertheless prosecuted and sentenced to a year in prison.
Pioneering sociologist William I. Thomas's academic career at the University of Chicago was irreversibly damaged after he was arrested under the act when caught in the company of one Mrs Granger, the wife of an army officer with the American forces in France, although he was later acquitted in court. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act [Jun 2005]
Orientalism and white slavery
The White Slave (1888) - Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte de Nouy
Hermitage, St Petersburg
An odalisque was a female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. The origin of the word appears to be French, from the Turkish odaliq, meaning a chambermaid, from oda, a chamber or room. The word is also written as odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.
Le marché aux esclaves / Slave Market (1866) - Jean-Léon Gérôme
In Western culture odalisques became common 19th century fantasy figures in the artistic movement known as Orientalism; they feature in many erotic paintings from that era.
Achat D'Une Esclave / Purchase Of A Slave (1857) - Jean-Léon Gérôme
Babylonian Marriage Market (1875) - Edwin Long
Edwin Long's painting Babylonian Marriage Market depicts the auction of girls for marriage. When it was first shown at the Royal Academy in 1875 it caused a sensation. --http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2004_44_fri_02.shtml[Jun 2005]
Even after the occupation of Algiers, white slavery remained an argument in favor of the ongoing campaign. In their Voyage pittoresque dans la Regence d'Alger, published in 1835, Emile Lessore and William Wyld depicted the former haunts of Barbary corsairs and the slave market in the Place Juba. The accompanying text congratulated the French for ridding Algiers of these slave traders. (135) Vacherot exhibited his picture of the slave market at the Salon of 1841. (136) Under the haughty gaze of a Turkish client, a white odalisque, naked apart from a white sheet drawn across her midsection, reclines in the foreground, immediately in front of a black woman with clasped hands. Prints deploring the slave trade, such as Vente d'esclaves from 1838 by Nicolas Eustache Maurin, featured the same repertory of characters: scantily dressed women supplicating their captors or prospective purchasers (Fig. 10). This racial contrast is central to the series of pictures set in the harem that Chasseriau painted after his return from Algeria. (137) In the mural, his juxtaposition of a black captive with her arms drawn up to her face and the defenseless white flesh of her fellow prisoners echoes the racial diversity of, and the positions assumed by Maurin's female slaves. It is above all in Chasseriau's adoption of the exposed and vulnerable back of the woman in the left of the lithograph for the central figures of his mural that suggests the imprint of the Barbary slave trade in The Return of the Captives. Chasseriau took Maurin's figure and duplicated her, giving the unbound hair cascading down her back to one of his faceless captives and the erotically charged drapery slung low across her naked hips to the other. (138) --http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_4_86/ai_n8680934... [Jun 2005]
Greek Slave (1844) - Hiram Powers
Greek Slave (1844) - Hiram Powers
Image sourced here.
Image sourced here.
Hiram Powers (1805 - 1873) was a U.S. neoclassical sculptor.
In 1843 he produced his celebrated Greek Slave, which at once gave him a place among the leading sculptors of his time. It was exhibited at the centre of the Crystal Palace Exhibition and Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a sonnet on it. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Powers [Jun 2006]
This sculpture by Hiram Powers was perhaps the most popular American work of art at mid-century. Over one hundred thousand people paid to see it during its 1847-1848 tour around the country. Powers himself supplied this gloss on the statue's sensational subject--a woman on sale as a sexual object. --http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/sentimnt/grslvhp.html
The Greek Slave profoundly affected the public, leading a poet H.S.C. to begin a poem: "Naked yet clothed with chastity, / She stands." This admiring sentiment certainly seemed the more prevalent one. The Greek Slave's immense popularity allowed journalists to use it as an icon to press other issues, such as the immoral slavery in the United States with the Punch cartoon depicting the "Virginian Slave." --http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/chains.html [Jun 2006]
From my Journal entry:
SlaveTrainingMagnet???? HypnoMagnets....Nanobot implanted slaveTraining? Hubby’s brainiac ideas... Consider me immensely amused. Could use a bit of a graphic design boost, but naturally I think this could be a great concept piece. :)...Anyway...That’s how my sexathon marathon got jump started and still running on steroids.
I promised myself, I wouldn't update my cm journal after..hate mail attacks against me from pissed off republican bigots. ...But something amazing changed all that and I must share.......I could pretend I'm that good shy wife..not the naughty one.. I'd LIKE to be a good wife. Nah- who do I think I'm fooling here?...So here goes...
I climaxed again from sex tonight....Hail Mary!..I am ready to fuck Jesus ..and Allah too! Budha Moses and Krishna can get in line...Richard Dawkins..take note...Hubby has been worn out spent and exhausted....and I am still horny...Praise the Lord.....The Pope can go to hell..if he wouldn’t fuck me....This is very.unusual for me..orgasm from sex alone....I am still tingling all over...Hoooraah!.....
There are a handful of my erotic emails and chats to my secondlife and cm dom buddies describing my orgasms from yesterday..I have carpet burns on both my knees and mosquito bites to prove I am not dreaming... that still makes me smile because they are just too clever and devious of me...giggle! giggle! he he!.... Sorry for the pompous-me-me-me spoiled bratty tone......
Yesterday was truly an heavenly evening! I had dozens of orgasms in my backyard startling the crickets and the rabbits...it certainly startled hubby..when he came looking for me...the.first few orgasms were alone and the rest with hubby.....This is how it started.....But first let me ask....
How many ways can you inspect a pussy? Men...C’mon...The Pussy inspection badge has become somewhat of a nuisance. my Pussy does not change that quickly..It’s not any different from yesterday...Husbands can be very creative..and very frustrating too...Granted...slave positions make me wet too...but not when ordered twelve or more times a day.....particularly not in the middle of a decent argument that I am winning....Hubby finds me arguing with my legs over my ears very erotic..I can understand that and do usually comply. I must admit sometimes prodded by his purple wand, and induced under threat of a doggi shock collar responsive training is frustratingly effective....but twelve times a day is a bit too much...do you agree? Doms? Subs? Slaves? Switches? Are you with me? Don't gang up against me now!
Ok..how did I have my Orgasm now....
Hubby was barking his usual slave positions commands last night as I was getting unusually aroused by the minute. "Bara, Sula, Hair, Heel, S'ouvrez, Genou, se Pliez
... He had a great rhythm going and I was one panting obedient wife. I just finished his "Chika position" Then suddenly out of the blue, without breaking his pace, he said, "did you know you left your new shoes in the car cunt?"
I guess the look on my face said "So What? now is not the time.""Sorry, later," His purple wand caught my pussy by surprise...inducing a yelp and a cluck!. The next command chilled me..as much as it excited me...Go wear your shoes and come back for your next command Hubby snapped..(Chika is his trademarked position - that Goreans would envy. I will tell explain it sometimes here).
There is talk on the horizon of enforced chastity to mold me back into a slave if I am not more responsive and attentive...scary and sexy at the same time...I crawl downstairs to get my shoes.
Damn! the Car is not in. Hubby knew this all along and had this all planned...I peek out and see the car half way out in the driveway...I sneek out of the backdoor..and go around the backyard...It is easier this way..than through the garage doors in the front which make a huge rattling noice and turn on the night light..The hairs on the back of my neck are standing now...I feel like a wild animal that is trying to avoid being hunted and eaten....I sneek to the car...No Shoes inside..The shoes are in the boot? I go around and take them out..and rush back to the backyard without any incident...anyone catching a glimpse of me would not guess I am naked......Our secret is safe for now...I take the shoes out, wear them and head for the back door. ....(will finish writing this later)....
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| Something to chew on | |
abusetoiwrites:That is the absolute tackiest outfit I have ever seen. Have you no taste whatsoever? BTW, you liberals ARE a bunch of parasitic commies who are selling the United States down the river to every globalist and terrorist that will give your worthless ass the time of day. Democrats/progressives are socialists and globalists who don't give a crap about the United States and should all be shot. or Slutdreamer writes: Shut your holes bitch...You must be the worst cunt. your husband must just shoot you first and ask questions later. or dantesinferno200 writes: goodluck spewing your one party system. Damien: 1 down many more to go... ( I suppose he is refering to Senator Gaby Gifford's shooting)....A sad day for American democracy...partly caused by the Republican hate mongerings..Cross hairs on a U.S Senator...Shame on you Republicans...Particularly Palin. A few examples of the fire my blogs seem to invoke....tsk tsk....But I do get some wonderful supportive emails too...from other liberals....so I am not complaining...just reponding publicly...Hey! Republicans...thanks for showing your true colors....shooting someone you don't like seems to be your common goal....Your low IQ, your hate all who don't fit into your agenda attitude, and your patriotic love for democracy justs seems to beam everywhere. ( Make no mistake - I hate the gender feminists and their twisted agenda as much as I hate Republicans...They are at the other end of the spectrum just like the Republicans...spewing hatred, creating animosity between the sexes, unfairly targeting innocent men with an insanely twisted agenda that keeps the sexes fighting and sexually frustrated.) And here is something to chew on.... what you need to believe to be a Republican......Much easier if you are a Tea bagger...not easy if you are a Mugwump...but they are as extinct as the dinosaurs... 1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred for Gays and Lesbians, Evolutionists, African Americans, Jews, Hispanics, Indians, immigrants....and.... Barak Obama the foreign born Kenyan illegitimate president.....who will turn America into a Socialist state or a Communist state, or Nazi state if not an islamic one...cause he hates America and what America stands for. 2. Saddam was a bad guy during Carter's administration....Saddam became a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush Junior needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion. 3. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony. 4. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq. 5. It was Republican groundwork that helped the Obama administration get Bin Laden....and ....err.."I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority." – G.W. Bush, 3/13/02 6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay. 7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex. 8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle and make fun of our long-time european allies, then demand their cooperation and money. 9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart. 10. Global warming, tobacco's link to cancer, evolution and Darwinism are junk science, but creationism and Intelligent Design should be taught in schools. 11. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense, but a president lying to its citizens to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is a err...tactical defense policy. 12. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet. 13. Interracial marriages is an abomination forced upon the southern states by the federal government since 1967 that deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States. the country would have been better off with state rights and Jim crow laws...Long live the confederacy.. also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia Loving V. Virginia. 14. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business. 15. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery. 16. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant. |
