ISLAND HISTORY: South Seas sugar laborers arrived at Koloa in 1859
During King Kamehameha IV's reign (1855-63), he proposed "bringing in Polynesian immigrants to ... reinvigorate the Native Hawaiian stock." And, on Dec. 31, 1859, the American scho…
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