1864: Blackbirders arrive in Fiji

Posted on September 30, 2007 by levuka

1864: Blackbirders arrived in Fiji and with them brought the first New Hebrides and Solomon Island labourers, to assist in the cotton plantations.

Filed under: 1864, Blackbirders, Cotton, Planters, Slavery

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