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.”

  The Huffington Post: David Helvarg: Oil, Terror, Tuna and You

• “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.”

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

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

  Simon & Schuster: The Prize

• “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

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

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

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

  Bar-20 Days

• “The cheerful industry of shanghaiing was reduced to a science.”

  Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

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

  Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories

• “It covers 20 historic sites including a 19th century shanghaiing den and the oldest Asian temple in North America.”

  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper

• “This is a city that was named by a coin toss, whose sea captains beefed up their crews by shanghaiing sailors, and that attracted tourists with a "monstrosity of art.”

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