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blood money in shipping

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Post by ashifpunk Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:43 am

"Shanghaiing" was the practice of the forced conscription of sailors. Boarding masters, whose job it was to find crews for ships, were paid "by the body," and thus had a strong incentive to place as many seamen on ships as possible. This pay was called blood money...
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