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Indentured labour
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Indentured servitude.
Oceania
During the 1860s planters in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the SamoaIslands, in need of laborers, encouraged a trade in long-term indentured labor called "blackbirding". At the height of the labor trade, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the islands worked abroad. Indentured labour existed in what is now Papua New Guinea.