The technique of recruiting them, sometimes by fraud or force, was known as blackbirding. |
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There is no material culture explicitly connected to the period of blackbirding and the sandalwood trade, colonial structures of administration under British and French rule. |
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When blackbirding was outlawed, Broome was faced with the challenge of finding others to do the dangerous work of diving for pearls. |
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Burns Philp was to incur public odium in the most notorious case in Queensland concerning blackbirding. |
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