1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 At the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the number of skilled and unskilled sailors needed to staff sea-going vessels fell short. Innocent men were forced to serve as seamen under conditions that were little better than serfdom. This cunning practice happened through a secret underground in one part of the Pacific northwest. Have you ever heard of Port Townsend’s history of shanghaiing? DOWNLOAD NOW Credit: For this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Strecker, author of Shanghaiing Sailors: A Maritime History of Forced Labor, and Norm Stevens, a retired member of the United States Coast Guard, former merchant marine, and community college professor from Port Townsend, Washington. Sources: Shanghaiing Sailors: A Maritime History of Forced Labor, 1849-1915; Strecker, Mark; McFarland; May 27, 2014. Shanghaied!; Neal Keller, David; American Heritage; September 1995; Volume 46; Issue 5. Levy, Maxwell (d. 1931), Port Townsend's Crimper&amp;nbsp;King; Gibson, Elizabeth; HistoryLink.org; December 5, 2006. Shanghaiing Days; Dillon, Richard H.; The Write Thought, Inc.; August 1, 2012. Shanghaiing: How Trickery and Deception Turned Thousands of Unwilling Men Into Sailors; Kaushik; Amusing Planet; April 2018. Shanghaiing; Smith, Georgia; FoundSF; Retrieved June 2018. Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona; Follansbee, Joe; iUniverse, Inc.; November 16, 2006. National Registry of Historic Places Inventory - - Nomination Form; National Park Service; United States Department of the Interior; Port Townsend Historic District; 1977. Also Visit: Jefferson County Historical Society The&amp;nbsp;Port Townsend Main Street&amp;nbsp;Program Washington&amp;nbsp;Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Historium Unearthia: Unearthing History's Lost and Untold Stories http://historiumunearthia.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6748238/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/21796832