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Dillon, Richard H. Shanghaiing Days
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(030345) Dillon, Richard H. Shanghaiing Days. New York: Coward - McCann, Inc., 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 351 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Nice printed bookplate on front pastedown. The account of 19th century hell-ships, bucko mates and masters, and dangerous ports-of-call from San Francisco to Singapore. In the last quarter of the 19th century, the American Merchant Marine went into a terrible decline, and sailors were forced to serve under conditions that were little better than serfdom. Shanghaiing refers to the practice of conscripting men as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence (Merchant Marine, Merchant Mariners, Shanghaiing)
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