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Portland shanghaier; known for drugging men with opium-laced liquor to supply crews to merchant ships.
David W. “Dynamite” Smith
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Queensland recruiter; notorious for deceptive labor contracts and coercive methods during 19th-century blackbirding operations.
“Scotty” Brown
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Pacific trader accused of slave raids and blackbirding; engaged in labor recruitment and maritime exploitation in the 19th century.
Captain James “Bully” Haines
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Labor recruiter in New Hebrides; occasionally linked to outright kidnapping and coercion in 19th-century Pacific trade networks.
Alexander McLean
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Known as “King of the Crimps” in Portland; ran boarding houses supplying unwilling crews to ships, infamous for violence and coercion.
Larry Sullivan
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San Francisco crimp with violent reputation; lured men into shipping service with deception and force, distinct from Bunko Kelly.
James “Shanghai Jim” Kelly
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Blackbirder in Pacific; faced repeated allegations of kidnapping and coercion of island laborers.
Captain William T. Walker
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American “South Seas pirate”; blackbirder notorious for capturing and selling Pacific Islander laborers during 19th-century trading voyages.
Bully Hayes (William Henry Hayes)
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Involved in blackbirding voyages in Pacific during 1870s; used coercion and deception to supply laborers for colonial enterprises.
Henry “Harry” Read
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Infamous Portland, Oregon shanghaier; drugged and sold sailors into forced service on merchant ships in the mid-19th century.
Joseph “Bunko” Kelly