Information om | Engelska ordet BLACKBIRDING

Exempel på hur man kan använda BLACKBIRDING i en mening

• He was the first in Australia to engage in blackbirding, a practice akin to slavery, when a ship he had commissioned brought 65 Melanesian labourers to Boyd Town in 1847.
• As explained by the artist, this alluded to the historical practice of blackbirding in the country and the "blood spilt" as a result of it.
• Blackbirders from the Americas sought workers for their haciendas and to mine the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands, while the blackbirding trade organised by colonists in places like Queensland, Fiji, and New Caledonia used the labourers at plantations, particularly those producing sugar cane.
• For the Kanakas, the years of blackbirding in the mid-19th Century came slowly to an end in 1870 upon the arrival of the London Missionary Society (Protestant) missionaries, from Samoa, who were able to give some protection against the black birders, together with the establishment of the British Western Pacific Territories, and especially the Pacific Islanders Protection Act of 1872 (the Kidnapping Act) and the Act of 1875 — which provided for agents on British recruiting vessels, stricter licensing procedures, and patrol of British-controlled islands; these Acts reduced the incidence of blackbirding by British subjects, but because of the continuing heavy demand for labour in Queensland, however, the practice continued.
• The power of the ramo on Malaita enlarged during the decades of blackbirding, as firearms and steel tools (decreasing the time required for farmwork) appeared on the island.

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