blackbirding
Sign in to savethumb|300px|In 1869, seized the blackbirding schooner and freed its passengers, who were bound for Queensland, Australia.
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- Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland{{anchor|Australia}}
- Robert Towns and the first shipments
- Expansion of labour recruitment for Queensland
- The Kanaka trade in the 1870s
- The Pacific Islanders Protection Acts 1872 and 1875 of the United Kingdom
- Early 1880s: resistance to the blackbirders intensifies
- ''The Age'' 1882 slave trade exposé
- Mid 1880s: Shifting of recruitment from the New Guinea islands
- The ''Hopeful'' case, Royal Commission and planter compensation
- The later years of recruiting
- Repatriation
- Seasonal workers in the 21st century
- {{anchor |blackbirding-in-wa}} Western Australia
- Fiji
- Before annexation (1865 to 1874)
- After annexation (1875 to 1911)
- French Polynesia
- Hawaiian Islands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Samoa
- The Americas
- Mexico and Guatemala
- Peru
- Easter Island mass-kidnapping
- 'Ata mass-kidnapping
- Deception at Tuvalu
- Mortality
- Representation in popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Further reading
thumb|300px|In 1869, seized the blackbirding schooner and freed its passengers, who were bound for Queensland, Australia.
Blackbirding was the trade in indentured labourers from the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often described as a form of slavery, despite the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire, including Australia. The trade frequently relied on coercion, deception, and kidnapping to transport tens of thousands of indigenous people from islands in the Pacific Ocean to Australia and other European colonies, often to work on plantations in conditions similar to the Atlantic slave trade. These blackbirded people, known as Kanakas or South Sea Islanders, were taken from places such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Easter Island, the Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu and the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, amongst others.