Blackbirding has continued to the present day in the Third World.

Plantation languages continued into the 20th century even though the process of blackbirding had ceased.

Blackbirding is the recruitment of people through trickery and kidnappings to work as labourers.

The methods of blackbirding were varied.

In the 19th century head hunting and blackbirding were widespread in the Solomon Islands.

At the height of the blackbirding, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the Islands worked abroad.

Between 1863 and 1906, Blackbirding was used for the sugar cane plantation labour trade in Queensland, Samoa, Fiji and New Caledonia.

The worldwide cotton shortage prompted by the American Civil War resulted in a cotton boom in Fiji that indirectly stimulated blackbirding - the trade in labourers.

The Tok Pisin language is a result of Pacific Islanders intermixing, when people speaking numerous different languages were sent to work on plantations in Queensland and various islands (see South Sea Islander and Blackbirding).

Captain William Greenlees (Greenless) had been running vessels along the East coast of Australia since August 1855 He had worked his way up from the smaller vessels and by 1868, 70, 72 he was the master of the 106 ton schooner Native Lass and involved in Blackbirding.