A person who engages in blackbirding, the forced recruitment or kidnapping of workers, particularly in the Pacific Islands.
From 'blackbird' (a term for forcibly recruited laborers) plus '-er' (agent suffix). 'Blackbird' itself was 19th-century slang for enslaved workers.
This dark chapter of history shows how euphemisms hide terrible truths—using a bird's name to disguise human trafficking made the evil practice sound almost innocent, which is exactly why historians now use the brutal term 'blackbirding' directly.
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