How 'Blackbirders' Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War
Source: Smithsonian
Estimates of the number of Pacific Islanders captured by blackbirders and forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia range from 61,610 to more than 100,000. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons No Pacific Islander was safe from the “blackbirders,” slave traders who lured, coerced or outright kidnapped tens of thousands of people for forced labor in Australia and Fiji in the late 19th and…
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