Blackbirding in Australia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Blackbirding in Australia


00:01:22 1 Etymology
00:01:41 2 Blackbirding in Polynesia in the 1860s
00:03:11 2.1 Tonga
00:05:31 2.2 Ellice Islands
00:06:12 2.3 Other islands
00:07:37 3 In Australia
00:11:07 4 In Fiji
00:14:35 5 Resistance
00:16:11 6 Representation in popular culture
00:17:24 7 See also



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Blackbirding involves the coercion of people through trickery and kidnapping to work as  labourers. Generally, persons of European ancestry, or others being paid by them, coerced persons of indigenous ancestry as labourers throughout the Southeast Pacific region through this system. Blackbirders sought laborers for several major industries or plantations.
From the 1860s, blackbirding ships in the  Pacific sought workers to mine the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands in Peru. In the 1870s the blackbirding trade focused on supplying labourers to Southeast Asian plantations, particularly those for sugar-cane in Queensland and Fiji. The first documented practice of a major blackbirding industry for sugar-cane labourers occurred between 1842 and 1904. Indigenous persons of nearby Pacific islands or northern Queensland were recruited or coerced by blackbirding colonial Europeans. In the early days of the pearling industry in Western Australia at Nickol Bay and Broome, local Aborigines were blackbirded from the surrounding areas.
Blackbirding has continued to the present day in developing countries. One example is the kidnapping and coercion at gunpoint of indigenous people in Central America to work as  plantation labourers in the region. They are exposed to heavy pesticide loads and do hard labour for very little pay.