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The politics and experiences of shanghaiing in San Francisco from 1887-1890 are related in a fine history which gathers the accounts of men who were shanghaied as well as considering the social and political elements of shanghaiing. Primary materials provide the foundation for a lively San Francisco history which provides a specific focus on a little-covered topic. -- Midwest Book Review
We highly recommend this book for several reasons: 1) it is hugely entertaining and, unlike many books on the subject, factual; 2) it is a well-researched book that deals straightforwardly with one of the most colorful times in the history of San Francisco; and 3) it shows what can be done with the plethora of information at the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library. Author Bill Pickelhaupt got the idea for this book while working there. He read an oral history of an old sailor who had been shanghaied and the idea took off. Latitude 38, December 1996. Also reviewed by the Chinese language newspaper Sing Tao Daily on December 15, 1996. --Latitude 38, December 1996 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
We highly recommend this book for several reasons: 1) it is hugely entertaining and, unlike many books on the subject, factual; 2) it is a well-researched book that deals straightforwardly with one of the most colorful times in the history of San Francisco; and 3) it shows what can be done with the plethora of information at the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library. Author Bill Pickelhaupt got the idea for this book while working there. He read an oral history of an old sailor who had been shanghaied and the idea took off. Latitude 38, December 1996. Also reviewed by the Chinese language newspaper Sing Tao Daily on December 15, 1996. --Latitude 38, December 1996 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The inspiration for Shanghaied in San Francisco came while doing volunteer work in late 1995 at the San Francisco Maritime Museum indexing old oral history transcripts. Among these stories, a half-dozen first hand accounts of men who had actually been shanghaied leapt out at me. When I stumbled across three photographs of men who had shanghaied sailors in 19th century San Francisco, I knew the story of shanghaiing had to be told.
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Shanghaied In San Francisco details a system by which cargo ships sailing out of San Francisco were assured a full complement of sailors. Shanghaing - forcing men aboard sailing ships by essentially kidnapping them - was indeed a system, buttressed by agreements between ship captains and the crimps who supplied them with sailors, by politicians who knew that without full crews to sail the ships the city's economy would crumble, and by support within police and fire departments. Shanghaiing existed in every major port around the world, but the term originated in San Francisco from the clipper tea trade with China. When the clipper era waned, shanghaiing of sailors increased, as the city's growth brought in more trade and more ships. Bill Pickelhaupt details this colorful history with this absorbing, well-researched account. In this book you will find legendary crimps such as "Shanghai Chicken" Devine and "Shanghai" Kelly, but there is also some surprising information, such as the large number of women crimps who shanghaied sailors. The rivalry among the crimps to collect "blood money" for supplying men to ships was so intense, there was a case of one crimp shanghaiing a rival crimp! The author also dispels a popular myth - that much of the shanghaiing involved trap doors in saloons, where sailors fell into the hands of runners who took them out to awaiting ships. Although not entirely untrue, it was not nearly as prevalent as legend has it. The legal struggles against shanghaiing are also discussed, along with the crimps efforts to subvert legal infringements on their trade. Shanghaied In San Francisco is also a portrait of an era when San Francisco was a wide-open town, and when sailors were treated as third-class citizens. Anyone interested in maritime history, San Francisco history, or in just a good read, will benefit from this book.
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Good information on a little-known issue in local history. Overly long and repetitive--shoiuld have been an article, rather than a book.
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