Associations to the word «Blackbirding»

Wiktionary

BLACKBIRDING, noun. (UK) (Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne