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Blackbirding

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black·bird  (blkbûrd)
n.
1. Any of various New World birds of the family Icteridae, such as the grackle or red-winged blackbird, the male of which has black or predominantly black plumage.
2. An Old World songbird (Turdus merula), the male of which is black with a yellow bill. Also called merle1.
3. Australian A South Sea Islander kidnapped and sold into slavery in Australia; a Kanaka.
tr.v. black·bird·ed, black·bird·ing, black·birds Australian
To kidnap (a South Sea Islander) and sell into slavery.


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I sailed in the teak-built ketch, the Minota, on a blackbirding cruise to Malaita, and I took my wife along.
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.
I had had some experience in blackbirding before I went pearling in the Paumotus.
 
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