White slave traffic

[suttontrust]

My mother used to maintain that a cousin of hers was abducted into the white slave traffic.  This would have been 1910s or 1920s, in London.  I found that ludicrous, until I read that such a thing did exist.  Has anyone else found an instance of this?

[Ros Fornaro]

Hi Suttontrust,

The white slave trade still exists today in parts of the world.   Many girls who go missing end up in brothels and are moved around and hidden to avoid detection.

Ros

[suttontrust]

Hi, Ros, yes I appreciate that it's rife today, but in the early part of the 20th century there was apparently a spate of trafficking to the Middle East.  I'm interested to see if anyone else has come across stories of it in their families.

[Chasing-fireflies]

There is a program starting about how rife it is in this era. I have not heard of it being so early in the century though. I know that in some places there was still "black" slave trade. I will have a scout about and see what i can come up with for you.
 
There is a book available on this subject called "slaves in the family" by the author Edward Ball
 

 

[Lendevon]

My mother used to suspect the mormons as being a sort of white slavers. They go out of their way to make friends with young people - who they then persuade to go abroad with them and you never hear of them again!
 

[MarieC]

I hope that isn't true, Lendevon!  The Mormons have been very helpful and generous to me in my researches, and never once tried to convert me.  I think I'd have to stop using their services if I really thought they were white slavers - and that would be a sad day!  The Director of my local LDS family history centre is a really nice, helpful man!

MarieC

[behindthefrogs]

My daughter spent a year on an educational exchange in California and although she could not accept their religious practices she said that as a group the Mormons were the only ones who she could trust not to be involved in drugs drinking and other unacceptable behaviour.

[skb]

My mother used to suspect the mormons as being a sort of white slavers. They go out of their way to make friends with young people - who they then persuade to go abroad with them and you never hear of them again!
 

Maybe your mum was thinking of the Moonies

[Chasing-fireflies]

I have a few friends in snowflake Arizona who are mormons. I met them whilst they were over here doing their Eldership if you can call it that. The young guys are more or less forced to come over here and knock on doors to try to convert people. They are only allowed to open mail from home on wednesdays which is their day off and they are not supposed to socialise except for the people they share the house with. Its a very cruel thing to do with young boys but thay feel like they are meant to do it. The mormon church changed when the jehovah witnesses formed their own group and left the latter day saints which made them come to the decision that multiple wives were wrong too. The few old school mormons that were left have stuck to the old ways. It would not suprise me if they were involved with some kind of slave trade as most people dont even know that they founded the casinos in Las Vegas and that their church still benefits from Gambling which is supposedly against their religion. You can only enter their main churches if you are baptised by them as i found out when i was invited to a wedding in Saltlake city, so i didnt go!!
People and religions are not always what they seem but thats not to say its ALL bad, just some.

P.S They also have to pay 10% of their weekly wages to the church in order to remain members!!!