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Contemporaries were aware of a more or less organized movement of sex workers into Australia from Japan through Southeast Asia, and from Europe through the Middle East. By the late 1890s, stories began to appear in the press about white slave traders who lured innocent young girls to the colonies and then forced them into a life of prostitution, which led to a change in attitude.

In the popular imagination, the white slave trade increasingly came to mean forced prostitution by violence or deceit.

The barbaric treatment of captive white women justified the violent dispossession of their captors by white men, which in turn redefined dispossessed people as rightful owners of the land.