[Perseverando]

Another non-politically correct (factual) American history lesson for today.

[gaijin]

On November 22, 1822, Betsey Stockton, a young African American woman from New Haven, Connecticut, set sail with the second group of missionaries for the for a five-month voyage to Hawaii.

Ah, yes, thank you. SOMEONE BLACK went to Hawaii, how interesting.

[PGR88]

Hiram Bingham's son, of the same name, attended Yale, then returned to spread Christianity in the Pacific.

Yale is just as fervent today, but only in promoting their new post-modern, paganist, statist-mother-gaia-worshipping religion.

[Jemian]

Those missionaries are all heroes.

[DEPcom]

That was a great History lesson....

[Phlap]

There were no Hawaiian words for clothing because no clothing was needed. Nothing has changed.

[Don Corleone]

The natives got religion but the missionaries got the land!!!

[thirst4truth]

This last January I visited the gravesite of Captain Cook on the big Island in Hawaii. It is in a beautiful cove where all the tourists go to snorkle.

Our boat captain told us of the first visit by Cook, he sailed into the bay to do some repairs on his boat, that week he arrived was the annual meeting of all the Hawaiians from all Islands for a big "shindig". A happy get together, no war, no hostilities toward one another. Cook arrived at this exact date and was amazed how many natives were there, must have been hundreds. They thought Cook was a God arriving at that perfect time of celebration to the gods.

They all made nice and Cook left to continue his exploring without incident. Soon after he left they hit a storm and one of the ships broke a mast and they had to come back to the cove. This time they were not celebrating peace, the Hawaiians were hostile and stole one of Cooks ships. He went after them and was eventually killed when they saw he bled like them when nicked with a sword.

[Don Corleone]

On November 22, 1822, Betsey Stockton, a young African American woman from New Haven, Connecticut, set sail with the second group of missionaries for the for a five-month voyage to Hawaii.

By the time she got there she turned into Julie Andrews and learned to sing.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for posting this, and please continue with the series. Most interesting!

[Truthoverpower]

Kamehameha. Never conquered KAUAI. MY ISLAND 🌴 NUALOLO. MILOLII. KALALAU. KOKEE. WAIMEA. LIHUE. KAUAPEA Kauai. NO KA OI !

[fidelis]

The first Catholic priests arrived at Honolulu on 9 July, 1827. They were the Rev. Alexis Bachelot, prefect Apostolic, the Rev. Abraham Armand, and the Rev. Patrick Short. The first two were natives of France, and the third of Ireland. All three were members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, called also the Society of Picpus, from the name of the street in Paris in which its mother-house is situated. They had been sent by Pope Leo XII...As soon as the priests began to make converts a fierce persecution was raised against the natives who became Catholics. They were ill-treated, imprisoned, tortured, and forced to go to the Protestant churches, and the priests were banished. Fathers Bachelot and Short were taken to a solitary spot in Lower California, far removed from any human habitation. In 1836 the Rev. Robert Walsh, an Irish priest of the same Congregation, arrived at Honolulu, and through the intervention of the British consul, was enabled to remain on the islands in spite of the ill-will of the Protestant party, which wanted to send him back on the vessel in which he had come. In 1837 Fathers Bachelot and Short returned from California, but religious persecution still continued. In the same year there arrived from France the Rev. Louis Maigret, who afterwards became bishop, and first Vicar Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands. He was not permitted to land, but was obliged to leave the country, together with Father Bachelot. who was in very feeble health. The latter, worn out by labour and trials, died at sea shortly after (5 Dec., 1837). In the year 1839 the French Government put an end to this persecution.

On 9 July the twelfth anniversary of the arrival of the first Catholic priests, the French frigate "Artémise", Captain Laplace, arrived at Honolulu. A few hours after anchoring dispatched one of his officers to present the king the following summary request: (1) that the Catholic religion be declared free; (2) that all Catholics imprisoned on account of their religion be set at liberty; (3) that the government give a suitable site at Honolulu for a Catholic Church; (4) that the king place in the hands of the captain of the "Artémise" the sum of $20,000, as a guarantee of his good-will and peaceful mind, said sum to be restored when the French Government should feel satisfied that the above conditions had been fulfilled. Hostilities were to commence if the king failed to comply within forty-eight hours with the terms of this manifesto. All the conditions were readily accepted, and peace was concluded...

Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13438a.htm