Blackbirding is the practice of enslaving people onto ships, usually through the use of deception and bribery, especially the inhabitants from the South Pacific Islands, and then transporting them to the sugar cane and cotton plantations, particularly in Queensland, Australia, to work as labourers. This practice was not limited to the blackbirding in Queensland, Australia, and had already occurred on the Chincha Islands in Peru. This dreadful practice occurred predominantly between the 1860’s and
The purpose of this report is to show the impacts of Blackbirding on societies in the Pacific. This case report will show that Blackbirding had a negative impact on cultural interaction. Blackbirding caused two cultures to learn about each other in a negative way. It forced the pacific people to be taken away from their families through trickery and kidnapping. These people were then forced to be slaves. Any situation where the human rights of one group of people are disregarded by another group