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| name = James "Shanghai" Kelly |
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'''James "Shanghai" Kelly''' was an [[American|United States]] criminal of the 1800's who kidnapped men and forced them to work on [[merchant ship|ships]]. The terms "[[crimp (recruitment)|crimp]]" and "shanghaier" are used to describe this type of criminal. |
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==Biography== |
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<ref name="smith">{{cite web |url= http://www.shapingsf.org/ezine/labor/shanghai/main.html|title=About That Blood in the Scuppers |accessdate=2007-04-03 |author=Georgia Smith |date= |year=1988 |work= Reclaiming San Francisco: History Politics and Culture, a City Lights Anthology |publisher=City Lights}}</ref> |
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==Things we know== |
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* James "Shanghai" Kelly, who kept a boarding house (variously reported to be on Pacific or Broadway)<ref name="smith"/> |
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* later ran the Boston House at the corner of Davis and Chambers streets.<ref name="smith"/> |
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* Shanghai Kelly ran a saloon and boarding house at No. 33 Pacific between Drumm and Davis streets<ref name="smith"/> |
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==The Kelly mythology== |
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Kelly is highly mythologized, and it is difficult to separate truth from the folklore. Here are some possibly true items about Kelly that have appeared in pront: |
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*His saloon had three trapdoors. When a sailor was needed, one was rendered unconscious with drugs or violence, dumped into a boat through a trapdoor and taken to the waiting ship. <ref name="smith"/> |
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* Cigar makers in Chinatown made up special opium-laced cigars for him to render sailors unconscious<ref name="smith"/> |
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* Some of the bodies he provided to ships were, in fact, dead. Once he provided a crewman that turned out to be a cigar store indian. <ref name="smith"/> |
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* Fellow-crimp Johnny "Shanghai Chicken" Devine shanghaied "Shanghai"<ref name="smith"/> |
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* They say that Kelly was shot down in Peru<ref name="smith"/> |
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==Notes== |
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<div class="references-small"><references/></div> |
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==Memorials== |
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If any, list the works organized by date of publication. See [[Charles Darwin]] for example. |
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==References== |
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* [[Stewart Holbrook]], "Bunco Kelly, King of the Crimps" in ''Wildmen, Wobblies and Whistle Punks''. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-87071-383-3 |
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* Samuel Dickson, "Shanghai Kelly", '' Tales of San Francisco'' Stanford: University Press, 1957. |
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* Bill Pickelhaupt, "Shanghaied in San Francisco," San Francisco: Flyblister Press, 1996. ISBN 0-9647312-2-3 |
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*{{cite web |url= http://www.missiontoseafarers.org/timeline.php |title= Mission to Seafarers Timeline Alongside World Events |accessdate=2007-04-02 |work=Mission to Seafarers }} |
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*{{cite web |url=http://www.sailors.org/pdf/history1-2.pdf |title= The Lookout of the Labor Movement |accessdate=2007-04-02 |work=Sailors Union of the Pacific }} |
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*{{cite web |url=http://www.sailors.org/photoalbum/balclutha.html |title= Archives: Balclutha |accessdate=2007-04-02 |work=Sailors Union of the Pacific }} |
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*{{cite web |url= http://www.shapingsf.org/ezine/labor/shanghai/main.html|title=About That Blood in the Scuppers |accessdate=2007-04-03 |author=Georgia Smith |date= |year=1988 |work= Reclaiming San Francisco: History Politics and Culture, a City Lights Anthology |publisher=City Lights}} |
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==See also== |
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*[[Crimp (recruitment)]] |
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==External links== |
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List official websites, organizations named after the subject, and other interesting yet relevant websites. No spam. |
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|NAME=James Kelly |
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|ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Shanghai Kelly, James Shanghai Kelly |
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|SHORT DESCRIPTION=Mid 19th-century crimp. |
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