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They made little progress at first, because "blackbirding" -- the often brutal recruitment of laborers for the sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji -- led to a series of reprisals and massacres.
It has been said not only that she engaged in smuggling, piracy, and "blackbirding" (which is kidnapping Gilbert Islanders and selling them to the coffee-planters of Central America), but that she maintained special relations with Satan, founded on the power of mysterious charms which her skipper was supposed to have procured from some mysterious source and was known to employ on occasion.— The Ape, the Idiot ; Other People
Originally a teak- built, gentleman's yacht, brass-fitted, copper-fastened, angle-ironed, sheathed in man-of-war copper and with a fin-keel of bronze, she had been sold into the Solomon Islands' trade for the purpose of blackbirding or nigger-running.— Jerry of the Islands
On our way to the "blackbirding grounds" we sighted the lofty Rossel— The Call Of The South 1908
And I thought you was going blackbirding!— The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
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