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Definition of Blackbirder
1. n. A slave ship; a slaver.
Definition of Blackbirder
1. Noun. a person involved in blackbirding ¹
2. Noun. a ship used for blackbirding ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackbirder
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackbirder
Literary usage of Blackbirder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"A "blackbirder " was nothing more or less thart a slaver, but the word "slave-owner"
horrifies our British cousins too much to allow of its use in their ..."
2. The Call of the South by Louis Becke (1908)
"Let us now suppose that a " blackbirder " (obnoxious name to many recruiters)
from Samoa, Fiji, or Queensland, has reached one of the New Hebrides, ..."
3. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"A "blackbirder " was nothing more or less thart a slaver, but the word "slave-owner"
horrifies our British cousins too much to allow of its use in their ..."
4. The Call of the South by Louis Becke (1908)
"Let us now suppose that a " blackbirder " (obnoxious name to many recruiters)
from Samoa, Fiji, or Queensland, has reached one of the New Hebrides, ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
""Was you ever a blackbirder, McGuffey? No? Well, you didn't miss nothin'.
It's dirty business. You drop in at a island, an' you invite the native chief ..."
6. The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank Thomas Bullen (1906)
"... unwittingly, as sailing-master of a little white schooner in Noumea, bound to
Apia, finding when too late that she was a " blackbirder "—" labour vessel ..."
7. East London by Walter Besant (1901)
"... savage," I once heard him say in a speech, "in his primitive condition, before
the missionary or the blackbirder or the beach-comber got at him. ..."
8. The Pacific, Its Past and Future, and the Policy of the Great Powers from by Guy Hardy Scholefield (1920)
"... and the sheriff of the Fijian courts was "courteously complying" with the
demand of a British captain to surrender the person of a blackbirder who had ..."
9. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
""Was you ever a blackbirder, McGuffey? No? Well, you didn't miss nothin'.
It's dirty business. You drop in at a island, an' you invite the native chief ..."
10. The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank Thomas Bullen (1906)
"... unwittingly, as sailing-master of a little white schooner in Noumea, bound to
Apia, finding when too late that she was a " blackbirder "—" labour vessel ..."
11. East London by Walter Besant (1901)
"... savage," I once heard him say in a speech, "in his primitive condition, before
the missionary or the blackbirder or the beach-comber got at him. ..."
12. The Pacific, Its Past and Future, and the Policy of the Great Powers from by Guy Hardy Scholefield (1920)
"... and the sheriff of the Fijian courts was "courteously complying" with the
demand of a British captain to surrender the person of a blackbirder who had ..."
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