a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
blackbirder in American English
(ˈblækˌbɜːrdər)
noun
(formerly)
a person or ship illegally engaged in the slave trade, esp. in the Pacific
Word origin
[1880–85; blackbird + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, barnstorm, highball, pari-mutuel, rain check-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)