White slave traffic

[Lendevon]

My mother grew up in the kind of fishing village where everyone had old testament names and where Ian Paisley would have been regarded as dangerously liberal. Any kind of outsider was an alien to be viewed with utmost suspicion. 

[CU]

There was a programme on TV about white slave trade but that was in Cornwall and in the 16 century. Ships from the Far East use to attack villages and carry them off to sell.

[Romilly]

Hi Suttontrust,

My Grandmother, Beatrice Minnie Harmer, (1906-1976) was always on about the White Slave Trade! She maintained that lots of girls were offered a puff of a "funny" cigarette in Lewisham, passed out...& woke up in Eastambul!!

Who knows if it really happened! (I suspect that she probably read about it in "The News of the World".

Romilly.

[AnneMc]

I must say I agree with MarieC, I have found the mormons to be very nice and friendly people.  Have many friends that are mormons and not once have they tried to talk religion with  me.  Also have had loads of help at the local family history centers and at the family history library in Salt Lake city.  I try to go to Salt Lake city as least once a year. 

Badgirl most religions require their members to pay money to the church usually 10% of their income.

Cheers
Anne

[suttontrust]

Romilly, your Gran and my mother obviously believed the same thing.  I wish I could remember where I read about it, but I'm sure there was more to it than scandal-sheet newspaper speculation.

[Biker]

Hello

I think this is pretty well documented in books and newspaper reports of the time: http://home.pacbell.net/tonyprey/burning/vicera.htm

http://www.victorianlondon.org/ has some earlier accounts too.

Regards
Biker

[Romilly]

What fascinating Links Biker!!

They will keep me busy for ages.

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[Hackstaple]

When I was a kid there was talk of "white slavers" who abducted young women and forced them into prostitution in the Middle East. Probably quite unreasonably the slavers were considered to Lebanese. I have no idea if that is true.
I remain uncommitted to any religion but I am opposed to the daft urban legends about how dreadful the Jews, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses etc are. I see no historical or contemporary proof that the Mormons are or were involved in white slaving. The issue of the polygamy that they practiced is another matter and lives in the past together with innumerable religious practices of other sects.
Tithing a percentage of income was the norm at one time. The Mormons did not invent it - it was the practice in the traditional Christian churches as well as in Islam.

[Chasing-fireflies]

There is no conclusive evidence to prove or disprove that mormons were involved but a website called "utah history to go" has some interesting facts about Mormons involvement with slavery and apparently documents are available to support this. This is not necessarily white slavery but anyone that supported any kind of slavery could of been directly/indirectly involved. We have to remember that the 'new' mormons are very different to the ones that were and the 'new' mormons do not support many beliefs that once were held by the church. Many mormons were business people and from what i have read on various websites, it was business people that were linked to white slavery.Who knows for sure what happened back then.