blackbirding

/blak-bur-ding/US // ˈblækˌbɜr dɪŋ //

黑龙江省,黑龙江,黑鸟,黑龙江日报

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : the act or practice of kidnapping people, especially Pacific Islanders, and selling them into slavery abroad, usually in Australia.

I sailed in the teak-built ketch, the Minota, on a blackbirding cruise to Malaita, and I took my wife along.
Whalers introduced a terrible disease; Bully Hayes, as will be presently related, found it a virgin field for "blackbirding."
A Solomon Islander, who had got there during the days when blackbirding or kidnapping was common, moved among them.
What, and be sent down here hunting after the blackbirding blackguards?
The traders were only too glad to get new recruits without the expense of blackbirding them.