#blackbirding
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #blackbirding from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:22 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:22 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #blackbirding.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:22 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 8 public posts (spanning ~32061 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (8)
Avg boosts / post: 2
Top of the latest posts
Blackbirding by Ryan Butta * "Australia has long reassured itself that, despite genocidal treatment of First Nations peoples, at least it has no heinous past of slavery, unlike Britain and the US. Ryan Butta shatters this historical self-de
Australia’s trade in human flesh: blackbirding - follow the money... "Between 1860 and 1906 up to 62,000 Pacific Islanders were shipped to Australia to work primarily in sugar cane and cotton farming.." "...The Pacific Islanders came, they
The rainforests were cleared for sugar, slaves worked the land and now back to planted rainforest for tourism. "The Daintree River valley is home to what remains of the world's oldest surviving rainforest, which dates back about 135 million
What “blackbirding” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediablackbirding
- verbTo enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
- nounThe practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.
Blackbirding was the trade in indentured labourers from the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often described as a form of slavery, despite the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire, including Australia. The trade frequently relied on coercion, deception, and kidnapping to transport tens of thousands of indigenous people from islands in the Pacific Ocean to Australia, other European colonies, and independent cou
“Blackbirding” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#blackbirding across platforms
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