Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackbirded
Literary usage of Blackbirded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"But sometimes—we are glad to say in the past—iniquitously blackbirded or kidnapped,
and practically sold into slavery. ..."
2. Cannibal-land: Adventures with a Camera in the New Hebrides by Martin Johnson (1922)
"Atree had been " blackbirded" away from the island about twelve years previous
to our arrival, in the days when natives were still carried off by force for ..."
3. Black Bazaar: Design Dilemmasby Ineke Hans, Ed van Hinte by Ineke Hans, Ed van Hinte (2003)
"Like blackguards, blackbirded slaves are decentralized and dispossessed. They are
defined by others, not themselves. Black becomes a blanket term we apply ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"But sometimes—we are glad to say in the past—iniquitously blackbirded or kidnapped,
and practically sold into slavery. ..."
5. Cannibal-land: Adventures with a Camera in the New Hebrides by Martin Johnson (1922)
"Atree had been " blackbirded" away from the island about twelve years previous
to our arrival, in the days when natives were still carried off by force for ..."
6. Black Bazaar: Design Dilemmasby Ineke Hans, Ed van Hinte by Ineke Hans, Ed van Hinte (2003)
"Like blackguards, blackbirded slaves are decentralized and dispossessed. They are
defined by others, not themselves. Black becomes a blanket term we apply ..."
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