Shanghaiing
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Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known
The shipping articles, or contract between the crew and the ship, from a 1786 voyage to Boston.
Andrew Furuseth (left) and Senator La Follette (center) were the architects of the Seamen's Act of 1915, pictured with muckraker Lincoln Steffens, c. 1915.
March 2017 Coors Kidnapping Ransom Note
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Shanghai tunnels
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The Old Portland Underground, better known locally as the Shanghai tunnels, is a group of passages in Portland, Oregon, United States, mainly underneath the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood and connect
Shanghaiing
…Maritime history of the United States Shanghai tunnels (Portland, Oregon): Tunnels allegedly used to shanghai laborers for ships in the early 20th century Shanghaied in Astoria, a long-running musical comedy…
Part of the tunnels