blackbirder

American  

[blak-bur-der] / ˈblækˌbɜr dər /

noun

1. (formerly) a person or ship illegally engaged in the slave trade, especially in the Pacific.

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Etymology

Origin of blackbirder

First recorded in 1880–85; blackbird + -er ¹

Example Sentences

When I was wrecked in the Solomons on the blackbirder, the Minota, it was Captain Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugénie, who rescued me. 

From Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack

They say he used to be a pirate and blackbirder and that he can tell strange yarns if he will—but that's all talk.

From The Pirate Shark by Arting, Fred J.

I was mate, then, on the Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder.

From South Sea Tales by London, Jack