January 6, 1866

injustice

First Exiles Sent to Kalaupapa

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On January 6, 1866, the Hawaiian Kingdom's Board of Health sent the first twelve people diagnosed with leprosy (Hansen's disease) — most of them Native Hawaiian — to the isolated Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokaʻi aboard the schooner Warwick. Some 8,000 people would be forcibly exiled there, torn from their families, until the isolation policy ended in 1969.

Sources

  1. nps.gov nps.gov/kala/learn/historyculture/a-brief-history-of-kalaupapa.htm
  2. civilbeat.org civilbeat.org/2023/01/a-dwindling-kalaupapa-population-honors-1st-exiles-with-tributes-and-tears/

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