Boy Slaves is a 1939 drama film starring Roger Daniel and Anne Shirley.

After an infraction gets them all in trouble, they are forced to work in a fenced and guarded turpentine camp, climbing and tapping trees.

They are free to leave only if they can first pay off bills they ran up at the company store (peonage).

Trapped in a state of de facto slavery, they decide to strike for better food after one boy gets dizzy from hunger and falls from a tree, resulting in the amputation of his arm.

When their protest fails, the boys decide to write a letter about the conditions of their detention to the U.S. President's wife, but it is intercepted.