I don’t know anything about white slave trade back in 1500s-1800s, but I do know between 1869-1932 England had a program where it shipped off poor and orphaned kids to its colonies (and to the USA), to fill labour shortages. These kids were called “home children” also known as indentured servants/workers. So people may be confusing different (or a never-ending) eras of the white slave trade.
The program fell into controversy after enough abuse of the child laborers was reported. Some of the kids were treated as property, whipped, forced to work long hours, all that. Even the good stories are a little rough, like spending your 7-10 year term living in a barn, working hard labor until you are set free.
The kicker of the story is the program was initially set up by well-meaning ladies who were trying to find a solution to fix the rampant child slavery going on in England itself. lol.
I don’t know anything about white slave trade back in 1500s-1800s, but I do know between 1869-1932 England had a program where it shipped off poor and orphaned kids to its colonies (and to the USA), to fill labour shortages. These kids were called “home children” also known as indentured servants/workers. So people may be confusing different (or a never-ending) eras of the white slave trade.
The program fell into controversy after enough abuse of the child laborers was reported. Some of the kids were treated as property, whipped, forced to work long hours, all that. Even the good stories are a little rough, like spending your 7-10 year term living in a barn, working hard labor until you are set free.
The kicker of the story is the program was initially set up by well-meaning ladies who were trying to find a solution to fix the rampant child slavery going on in England itself. lol.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Children