blackbirders

Owing to my knowledge of Polynesian and Melane-sian dialects, I was frequently employed as "recruiter" on many "blackbirders" -- French vessels from Noumea in New Caledonia, Hawaiian vessels from Honolulu, and German and English vessels sailing from Samoa and Fiji, and in no instance did I ever have any serious trouble with my "blackbirds" after they were once on board the ship of which I was "recruiter".

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

The men who smuggled enslaved Africans referred to themselves as "blackbirders" and their illegal human cargo as "black ivory."

Alan Singer: New York Was the Land of Slavery 2010

This island is the most savage of the Solomon chain, the stamping ground of "blackbirders," labor recruiters who enslave natives to toil on plantations for a wage of $30 a year.

“Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

The men who smuggled enslaved Africans referred to themselves as "blackbirders" and their illegal human cargo as "black ivory."

Alan Singer: New York Was the Land of Slavery 2010

After 1850 European "blackbirders" began coaxing or kidnapping Solomon Islanders to toil on plantations in Australia.

Rebels Of The Pacific 2008

Fiji, Queensland, and Samoan "blackbirders" liked to visit him and loll about the spacious sitting-room and drink his grog and play cards -- and tell him that his wife was "the smartest and prettiest woman in the group."

Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884

And let me tell you that blackbirders were blackbirders in those days.

THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN 2010

They had to struggle to vote, to be admitted to white professional societies—even to evade "blackbirders" who broke into their homes in pursuit of runaway slaves from the South.

The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011

The blackbirders had never succeeded in recruiting one labourer on the island, and, after the schooner Dorset had been cut off with all hands, they left the place severely alone.

THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

New Gibbon, 150 miles long and half as broad, inhabited by a score of warring groups, belonged to the Solomon Group, politically in joint control of Britain and Germany, but under no actual control, passed by by traders and blackbirders, its German cocoanut plantation abandoned after several managers and contract laborers lost their heads to natives.

“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008