shanghaiing

The BBC recently did an investigative story on how the Thai fishing fleet saves money by shanghaiing Burmese refugees and using them as slave labor aboard their boats.

David Helvarg: Oil, Terror, Tuna and You David Helvarg 2011

The BBC recently did an investigative story on how the Thai fishing fleet saves money by shanghaiing Burmese refugees and using them as slave labor aboard their boats.

David Helvarg: Oil, Terror, Tuna and You David Helvarg 2011

We have slave catchers coming in from Long Island into New York City as cops, and shanghaiing African-Americans into the criminal justice system, into the prison system.

Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Randy Credico vs. Chuck Schumer and the Drug Laws (Part 1) 2010

Finally, in 1861, a Philadelphia shipper obtained a crew by getting the potential recruits drunk and virtually shanghaiing them aboard the sailing ship.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Finally, in 1861, a Philadelphia shipper obtained a crew by getting the potential recruits drunk and virtually shanghaiing them aboard the sailing ship.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

"Wait till I get on shore ... this little shanghaiing party of the captain's will cost him a lot of hard money," he said, in a low voice, to me, -- standing idly by, his hands in his pockets, while I was bending over the brass on the bridge railing, polishing away.

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

"No more shanghaiing hair pants for me, no more!" thickly replied

Bar-20 Days Clarence Edward Mulford 1919

And shanghaiing, to use a modern term, was not unknown.

Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers 1919

The cheerful industry of shanghaiing was reduced to a science.

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904

Tom Mowbray had proved his power by shanghaiing him aboard the Etna!

Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902