Description: SHANGHAI-ING IN THE BRITISH ARMY, c1795Reflections on the Pernicious Custom of Recruiting by Crimps and on Various Other Modes Now Practised in the British Army: In a Letter to a Friend. Anonymous. London: D. Isaac Eaton. No date given, but c1795. Sewn binding. 25 pages. Very good. The author decries the custom of crimping (Shanghai-ing) by the British Army, which he describes as slavery. This was the practice of kidnapping by force to obtain men for military purposes. The author gives examples of it and makes the point that it does not have a good outcome and is a poor cost to the nation, as the forced person does not make a good soldier.
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Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1920
