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noun

Blackbirding n.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. (Australia)

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Etymology of 'Blackbirding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... liked Stires, who had no social standing, even on Naapu, and disliked Follet, who had all the standing there was. Follet dined with magnates; and, believe me, the magnates of Naapu were a multicolored lot. A man might have been made by copra or by pearls—or by blackbirding. We were a plutocracy; which means that so long as a man had the house and the drinks, you asked no questions. The same rule holds—allowing for their dizzier sense of figures—in New York and Chicago. On the whole, I think we were more sensible. There is ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various