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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Christopher Augustine Buckley Sr., commonly referred to as Blind Boss Buckley, was a saloonkeeper and Democratic Party political boss in San Francisco, California. Though he never held public office,
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…James Laflin Chris "Blind Boss" Buckley, the Democratic Party boss of San Francisco in the 1880s William T. Higgins, Republican Party boss of San Francisco in the 1870s and '80s…
"Mythology Up To Date," a political cartoon published in The Wasp depicting Buckley as Orpheus, September 22, 1894