Pasifik Slave Trade

Blakbirders; the euphemism for the white slave traders,This praktise of kidnapping labour was known as ‘blakbirding’.'Blakbird’ was another word for slave. Blakbirding in it's most signifikant form began in Australia with Sydney politician and merchant, Kaptain Robert Towns who arranged for a sandalwood trader operating from Tanna, Henry Lewin, to rekruit islanders from the Loyalty and New Hebrides Groups (Vanuatu) in 1863 for his kotton plantation on the Logan River.  However, blakbirding in Australia began with the first aknowledged Blakbirder Kaptain William Boyd in 1847 when his skooner Velocity landed sixty-five men from the New Hebrides.  Peru konducted the most devastating raids in 1862 and 1863. Source:Blakbird