Joseph Kelly
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Who is Joseph Kelly?
Joseph "Bunko" Kelly was a Liverpudlian hotelier of the 19th century who kidnapped men and sold them to work on ships. The terms "crimping" and "Shanghaiing" are used to describe this type of activity. By his own account, he Shanghaiied about 2,000 men and women during his 15-year career, beginning in 1879.
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