Blackbirding

I had had some experience in blackbirding before I went pearling in the Paumotus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They made little progress at first, because "blackbirding" -- the often brutal recruitment of laborers for the sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji -- led to a series of reprisals and massacres.

"Following the importation of workers from the Pacific islands in the late 1800s, often known as 'blackbirding', successive Australian Governments have repeatedly rejected calls to allow any form of unskilled labour immigration," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"blackbirding" vessels, saying that he would like me to come and stay with him. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

There is wild talk of cannon aboard, and of strange raids and expeditions she may make, ranging from opium smuggling into the States and arms smuggling into China, to blackbirding and open piracy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I sailed in the teak-built ketch, the Minota, on a blackbirding cruise to Malaita, and I took my wife along. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Woodward's story is of the time twenty years past when he was a mate on the big 150-ton blackbirding schooner Duchess out of Apia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bassett combats fever, dreaming of reaching the beach and some blackbirding schooner. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At age seven he was kidnapped by bushmen and became a slave in Malaita's bush villages, then when he was seventeen was turned over to a blackbirding gang for a half case of tobacco, some knives, axes, calico and beads, and taken aboard a schooner to toil three years on the plantations of the Moongleam Soap Co. on New Georgia, clearing jungle and cutting cane grass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“A butcher by trade, but also believed to have numerous dealings with the Irish blackbirding gangs of Five Points.” ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

A great hole left in the ordering of the lrish blackbirding gangs. ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)