The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

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Beginning in 1866 and continuing for over a century, more than eight thousand people suspected of having leprosy were forcibly exiled to the Hawaiian island of Molokai -- the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Torn from their homes and families, these men, women, and children were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in...more

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Published January 9th 2007 by Scribner (first published 2006)

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May 29, 2011 Lisa Vegan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: those interested in Hansen’s Disease & its history & its sufferers and in quarantining

Shelves: non-fiction, history, biography, reviewed, science

I read this because I recently read and adored the novel Moloka'i by Alan Brennert and wanted to learn more about Moloka’i by reading a non-fiction account. I nearly gave this book 5 stars (it’s a definite 4 ½ star book) because it does what it does so impressively. but the fact is I felt as though I got a better feeling of what leprosy was like and how people with the disease were treated from the novel, even though this book covers so much more ground. I was definitely fascinated by some of th...more I read this because I recently read and adored the novel Moloka'i by Alan Brennert and wanted to learn more about Moloka’i by reading a non-fiction account. I nearly gave this book 5 stars (it’s a definite 4 ½ star book) because it does what it does so impressively. but the fact is I felt as though I got a better feeling of what leprosy was like and how people with the disease were treated from the novel, even though this book covers so much more ground. I was definitely fascinated by some of the historical events.

In this book, I was particularly interested in the years that corresponded to the years covered in Moloka'i. This is a chronological account of Hansen’s Disease and the Molokai colony but also covers Hansen’s Disease as it was treated at Carville medical facility and other locations too.

Reading this was heartbreaking and infuriating regarding what happened in this time and place, and so much of it was tragic and unnecessary. This non-fiction account was exceedingly well written in an interesting manner; at times it read like fiction; the real people and events are fascinating. There were so many people and incidents covered, so much history, and I enjoyed that, though I can see others wanting less or wanting it organized differently. But, it worked for me as it is.

I enjoyed the included photographs of different scenes of the colony settlement in different years and some of the mentioned people.

As I read I thought of AIDS, because it’s another disease people were so scared of that its sufferers were ostracized for a time. It turns out the account in this book actually goes up to the AIDS era and it is mentioned.

At the end of the book there is a lengthy bibliography. There are also extensive notes (I did read most though the book can be enjoyed and understood without them) and there is also a useful index. The book is divided into four parts, each with their own chapters that show the colony’s population at the time, and they tell a lot of what happened from 1789??? to about 2003 in chronological order.

Anyone interested in the history of Hansen’s Disease, the history of medicine, quarantining the ill, Hawaiian and U.S. history, and ill or isolated or ostracized people, are likely to find this book interesting. I have more “leprosy” books on my to-read shelf because I have been interested in this disease since I was nine years old. But, for readers who have time to read only one book and who can enjoy historical fiction novels, I’d recommened Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. If readers really want to read non-fiction history about the subject, this book seems to me to be a good choice.(less)

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Oct 29, 2008 David rated it 5 of 5 stars

I would have liked to read this book in connection with a visit to Molokai. Instead, I started it while on the island of Maui, from where you can look across the open seas to Molokai. Perhaps that "distant view" was more symbolic of this isolation of the leper colony which was located on the island's isolated northern peninsula from 1866 to 1969.

The author presents a sweeping history both of "Hansen's disease" (the modern designation) and its physical impacts, the creation and evolution of the c...more

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Feb 02, 2009 Tom rated it 3 of 5 stars

Pretty interesting book and a somewhat quick read. I came away with a slightly more sympathetic view towards those who created the colony. I by no means think it was appropriate, but after you read that half of Oahu died of small pox, 5000 died of typhoid, 10000 died of various std's, and one year nearly every new born baby died of influenza, it creates more context for the reader. It's not a simple case of people unreasonably thinking a disease could wipe them all out. Actually, that WAS a reas...more

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Dec 04, 2008 Alwa rated it 3 of 5 stars

A very, very dense book--I'm down to the last 20 pages, and it's dragging hard (why I'm writing a review instead of finishing it). Tayman tells a good story, but to some extent sacrifices narrative and style for what can feel like a master list of the exploits of every case of leprosy in America...though I will admit I did enjoy John Early's periodic appearances (if you've read it, you know what I mean), I wish he'd narrowed his focus just a little, or turned down the magnification on his lens....more

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Mar 23, 2013 Chris Demer rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history, medicine, politics

This history of the leper colony on Molokai is truly a fascinating read!

Meticulously researched, the historical aspects are backed by mountains of documentation. However, the book reads more like a novel. Tayman includes life stories of several key players, including Father Damien, Mother Marianne, numerous directors and physicians who served the colony,(both good-hearted and greedy) several politicians and Board of Health members and several patients who spent years in exile. He draws informati...more This history of the leper colony on Molokai is truly a fascinating read!

Meticulously researched, the historical aspects are backed by mountains of documentation. However, the book reads more like a novel. Tayman includes life stories of several key players, including Father Damien, Mother Marianne, numerous directors and physicians who served the colony,(both good-hearted and greedy) several politicians and Board of Health members and several patients who spent years in exile. He draws information from interviews with elderly survivors as well as memoirs, articles,letters, minutes of meetings, etc. The story is tragic. The conception of leprosy as being extremely contagious, the horrendous results of untreated leprosy, ignorance and fear converged in the plan to exile those diagnosed to an isolated shelf of land on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai. The "Settlement" began in the 1860s as old and young, men and women, parents and children and husbands and wives were diagnosed (not infrequently in error) and torn from their families to live the remainder of their lives in exile from all they held dear. In the early years, there was minimal funding, and unbelievably, the exiled lepers were expected to grow their own food and become a self-sustaining colony!
They lived in crowded, poorly constructed cabins, in the damp and cold and many were severely malnourished. Medical care was minimal or absent and in any case, there was no real treatment. Eventually, through the works of Father Damien, a Belgian priest who was sent (willingly) to the island to care for their souls, and Mother Marianne and her small group of sisters, as well as some well-meaning managers and the efforts and pleadings of the "inmates" themselves, the situation gradually improved.
Eventually as treatments became available a small hospital was constructed. Improved availability of nourishing food the care improved the situation. But the fact remained that they were virtual prisoners for life, unable to return to their families ever!

Through the years, the members of the colony did create an alternative universe to some degree. Forming social groups, forming families (although their children were taken from them!) and caring for each other. When curative treatment finally became available in the form of Sulfone drugs in the early 1950s, many chose not to leave Molokai, having been abandoned by their families and made a new home of sorts.

In total, over 8000 people were exiled to Molokai over the century it was in operation. Most died there. Some when permitted, moved back to Honolulu where there was a hospital to care for them.

The narrative is sad, tragic and depressing- but also uplifting, a story of unbelievable bravery and survival.

Highly recommended!!

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May 08, 2012 April Hochstrasser rated it 3 of 5 stars

Why did we deprive people of their homes and families? Because no one knew how leprosy was transmitted back in 1860, so it seemed prudent to ship people off to a colony. It was not just in Hawaii that this happened; there were leper colonies all over the world in all times, until the cure, sulfate drugs, were discovered. However, what makes this colony especially abhorrent is the lack of care to the patients once they arrived. They had little or no shelter or medical care for most of their stay....more

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Feb 04, 2011 Deanna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Overall I enjoyed this read and would definately recommend it to adult readers. It is a non-fiction piece about the last lepor colony in the United States that wasn't actually shut down until the mid 1960's. It's a very story-based and personal work that honors the memory of the exiles. Tayman has a captivating way of weaving story through facts and is able to cover 100 years without tossing the reader through lists of stats or names. The book was a bit heavy and emotionally overwhelming at time...more

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Mar 03, 2011 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history-politics

On the surface, this book is about some people, who happened to contract Hansen's disease (leprosy) and how they were taken forcibly from their families and exiled. The deeper story is our human response to physical illness. Leprosy, prior to the 1950's was a terrible, disfiguring and painful disease. Although it is not highly contagious in most forms, the fear surrounding it is both literally and figuratively Biblical. It is both fascinating and disturbing to read about the level of fear and di...more

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Dec 21, 2009 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

This is an enjoyable and easy reading book charting the history of the leper colony on Molokai, a sort of popular history of the exiles there. I don't begrudge it these things, and in fact I often marvel at how entertaining some of these historical non-fiction accounts can be. But at heart, I'm a fiction guy, so the few literary devices that Tayman uses make me measure this book up against the best novels I've read, and it's got some big flaws.

I don't mind reconstructed conversation in a non-fic...more This is an enjoyable and easy reading book charting the history of the leper colony on Molokai, a sort of popular history of the exiles there. I don't begrudge it these things, and in fact I often marvel at how entertaining some of these historical non-fiction accounts can be. But at heart, I'm a fiction guy, so the few literary devices that Tayman uses make me measure this book up against the best novels I've read, and it's got some big flaws.

I don't mind reconstructed conversation in a non-fiction book, in fact I think it's a great tool, but you've got to use it to build your characters, and not just to pull along the plot or the flow of events. Tayman's got a wealth of memorable characters here, but since they all suffer from leprosy and generally die young, and his real goal in this book is not the story of the people with leprosy, but the story of the colony they inhabited on Molokai, he never gives them the time and attention they deserve. Louis Lepart jumps out as a fertile character, an early superintendent of the colony who left France for Hawaii as part of a journey of self-discovery and found himself to be a bit of a bastard, playing the exiles against the board of health and vice versa. Father Damian is rad as well. But really, I want to know more about the exiles themselves. I want more Ragsdale and Kaeo. The relationship between this poor, yet brilliant leader and his rich, royal and illiterate counterpart seems like the perfect vehicle to show conditions in the colony. Tayman should dispense with some of the lesser folks, leave them to a much longer account, and focus on a few people that could bring us much deeper into the life of an exile.

And then at the end of the book, Tayman gives us four or five survivors, people he was able to speak to himself as he did his research. You'd think he could capture more of the pain and suffering and isolation through the words of these folks, but in the end, the colony seems more like a nice quaint rest home than a prison, a place to retire and relax and live in peace. I want more of the drama of the early colony.

Not bad, though.(less)

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Jun 18, 2012 Nick Montgomery rated it 3 of 5 stars

I first learned of the leper colony in 4th grade while studying the Hawaiian Islands and the story stuck with me. It's a shame that I have always associated Molokai with leprosy because there's so much more to the story than that. John Tayman spells it out here, in this somewhat dry but factual account of the Kalaupapa peninsula, an outcropping of rock off a sheer rock face (incidentally, the island of Molokai is an anomaly in the Hawaiian chain; it's shape suggests a massive explosion may have...more

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May 06, 2010 Kate rated it 2 of 5 stars

Regardless of the subtitle, this is not a story: it's a report. One shouldn't try reading this book unless one is truly interested in the story of leprosy and their exile on Molokai. The author is a writer and editor, who researched this topic extensively. Every statement and quote gets a citation in the voluminous notes at the end, although the author says he doesn't give a citation for everything. He will, however, give you a citation for anything if one writes him.

There is just too much infor...more

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Jul 05, 2007 Katy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Very interesting. However this book stirred up a lot of emotion in Hawaii because the author apparently was not always historically or factually accurate. Apparently he took a lot of liberties with the story. Very interesting read though.

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Oct 19, 2012 Brandie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2-stars, history, nonfiction, read-2006

The book was hard for me to follow ... I felt like the writer skipped around a lot. Like he would start to write about person A who knew person B, then talk about person B for a while, then jump back to person A and not becuase he was saying things chronologically. It was also hard to keep up with all the people he mentioned ... nonfiction isn't always the easiest to follow, especially when I am used to reading fiction, but this book just seemed harder to follow than normal.
I admit I though it w...more

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Nov 27, 2008 Elizabeth O'Callahan rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone

Recommended to Elizabeth by: no one

I usually have a hard time getting through non-fiction, but the content was so interesting that I had to keep reading -- fast. The story is sad, but I found fascinating the necessary moral dilemma at the heart of the book: at what point do we deprive those who are dangerous (through no fault of their own) of their homes and families? I tend to agree with quarantine of those with highly contagious and highly destructive diseases, so I can't say I blame the officials for the colony they created. H...more

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Jan 26, 2010 Tammy rated it 4 of 5 stars

A fascinating book on many levels. It tells the story of a leprosy settlement on the Hawaiian island of Molokai and focuses on the human element without overlooking the science of the disease and its eventual cure. Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London appear in the narrative along with some Mormon history and the eventual canonization of two saints who serve many years at the settlement. As the colony comes to an end after a cure to the disease is found there is relevant comparisons to the AID...more

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Jul 30, 2009 Tina rated it 1 of 5 stars

Okay, I finally finished this book, but I really just skimmed the last hundred pages or so. It was nothing but dates and names, and the people began running together after awhile. I couldn't remember who was who, and I know it was nonfiction, but gosh, was it boring. There are ways to make nonfiction interesting, but this guy doesn't know them.
I read some reviews of the books that mentioned controversy--apparently after the book came out, some of the recent people profiled took offense to some...more

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Feb 14, 2010 Shawna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Revealing the history of leprosy in Hawaii, this books tells a story I had never before heard. The individuals with the disease lived such sad lives for the most part. Later, as better treatments were discovered, their lives began to improve. Sadly, the stigma of the term "leper" never completely dissipated. This book began slowly for me. It became truly interesting about the time Father Damien and Sister Marianne came to the settlement. Prior to that the story was just so tragic. An excelent re...more

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May 11, 2013 Debbie rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was a fascinating book - the sort that stays with one for a long time.

Strictly speaking, there were some digressions that were a bit meandering and not entirely germane to the narrative - but they were interesting in their own right, so I didn't care.

The other issue (not unique to this book) is the uneasy balance between the carers and the exiles. When the point of view is that of the former, the latter lose their individuality.

But I recommend this book because of the many interesting sto...more

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Aug 21, 2010 Meaghan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2010, medicine, history

Just what the dust jacket promised: this was a fascinating history from both the medical and the personal perspective, full of colorful characters. I had never heard of the Molokai colony before and hadn't even realized that leper colonies ever existed in America. The way the patients were treated early on reminded me very uncomfortably of the Jewish ghettos the Nazis created. Even after conditions improved, the patients still faced hardship and a great deal of prejudice.

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Jun 17, 2009 Sonya rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book WAS AMAZING. riveting. Caused me to ponder the nature of humans and how to be a more selfless and compassionate person. Inspired me to look around for opportunities to reach out to those who are shunned or spurned. The author's descriptions of life on the colony and how it evolved over time and what was accepted as a good idea were unbelievable. Made me think of guantanamo. and refugee camps. after reading this book and passing it on 6 of us got on a plane and headed to Molokai and wen...more

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Jun 17, 2009 Jacqueline rated it 5 of 5 stars

I borrowed this book from our friends, the Harwoods. I liked it even more than the fictional story, Molokai! This work of nonfiction is vivid and griping; its tales are of tragic suffering and persecution, yet also of inspiring love, selflessness and the strength of the human spirit! I really enjoyed learning about this time in Hawaiian history and work that went towards a cure for Hansen's Disease. There was absolutely too much information to learn and remember in one reading, so I definitely w...more

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Jul 25, 2009 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book. It really opened my eyes to things I'd never thought about. It's such a commentary on how we treat each other when we're afraid of them. It also highlighted the good that we're capable of, even in the worst situations. The author makes it clear that there were no easy answers to the problem of leprosy, but terrible things were done in the name of public safety. This book was fascinating. It was fun to get to know the people involved, especially the ones who are living...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Missy Sherriff rated it 3 of 5 stars

The wealth and accuracy of the information and the importance of the underlying messages are undeniable, but the book was written in a noticeably disjointed manner. It wasn't strictly chronological, it wasn't driven by focusing on one historical figure at a time, and it wasn't segmented by larger categories such as survival in the colony, medical advances, political involvement, worldwide comparatives, individual memoirs, etc. This disorganized approach made the book a bit difficult to follow, b...more

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May 24, 2012 Dana rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have been looking forward to reading this book for quite some time, since I enjoyed the fictional account "Molokai". When I finished that book, I thought the end was the actual end of the colony/settlement. However, it wasn't. I was surprised to learn that it was on-going during my lifetime. I was also surprised to learn what causes leprosy, and how it was treated in other places in the U.S.

Another surprise was the story of St. Damien is accounted in a portion of the book. I wasn't expecting t...more

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Mar 09, 2012 Stephanie rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was both informative and heartbreaking.

Due to fear and ignorance these poor people were treated literally like criminals.
They were hunted down and stripped of all their rights.
They were swept up, dropped without ceremony on the island of Molokai, with the full expectation that they would die, and in fact they were considered to be legally dead to the rest of society once they received a diagnosis and then put on a transport ship to the island.

Once on Molokai, they were initially all...more

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Apr 19, 2010 Bettie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: spring-2010, plague-disease, sciences, historical-masturbation, north-americas, nonfiction, published-2006, history

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. home audio. I wonder if the author is more used to being a down market tabloid hack because this sure reads that way. For such a tragic, heart-wrenching piece of history I would have preferred a sober, levelled approach.

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In the best-selling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony reveals the untold history of the infamous American leprosy colony on Molokai and of the extraordinary people who struggled to survive under the most horrific circumstances.

In 1866, 12 men an...more

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Apr 08, 2012 Kristal rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2009, disease-and-epidemics

In 1866, Hawaii was trying to save it's reputation as a beautiful, tropical place to visit and tried to hide the fact that it had a large number of citizens who had leprosy. So in an effort to keep the streets clean, it passed a law where anyone found with the disease would be sent to the island of Molokai, an "almost island" that boasted one small claim, it had the tallest sea cliff in the world. The "patients" were virtually prisoners on the island. There were no landing sites along the island...more

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Jan 25, 2011 Cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, non-fiction, history, medicine

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Themes: illness, superstition, compassion, love, science
Setting: Molokai, Hawaii 1866-1970s

Leprosy. It's a horrible disease. It makes your extremities fall off. It's horribly contagious. It causes nasty oozing sores that spread germs to everyone you pass by. It's always fatal. And there's still no cure.

Except that none of this is true. Except that is a pretty horrible disease, if not treated. But there is a very effective treatment available. It'...more

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Oct 20, 2008 Sam rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is seriously a fantastic book. I consider myself a pretty educated person, not brilliant or anything, but when it comes to American history, there's not a lot that I haven't at least heard about. Until I started doing research on Hawaii (I'm writing a book of my own that takes place there) did I discover this hidden piece of history: the leper colony of Molokai.

John Tayman tells this story vividly and with more detail than any historian could ever ask for. The book itself is filled with dat...more This is seriously a fantastic book. I consider myself a pretty educated person, not brilliant or anything, but when it comes to American history, there's not a lot that I haven't at least heard about. Until I started doing research on Hawaii (I'm writing a book of my own that takes place there) did I discover this hidden piece of history: the leper colony of Molokai.

John Tayman tells this story vividly and with more detail than any historian could ever ask for. The book itself is filled with dates and names, so much so it can be overwhelming. He tells not just the story of one person experiencing leprosy in one of the most horrible prisons ever constructed. Tayman tells the story of the prison itself, covering its entire hundred year history.

And yet, the book is extremely read-able and entertaining. It's also uplifting and endearing, because the people sent to Molokai experienced one of the worst events to happen in modern history and yet, for the most part, pull through it, finding ways to cope and even find love. Not everyone is so lucky, but most of the people sent to the colony ended up staying there for life, even if their disease was eventually cured. The prison became their home, a home where no one would judge them for their condition and no one thought less of them.

Though this book is about an experience so horrible I cannot even begin to do it justice, some of the experiences Tayman has uncovered are truly breathtakingly beautiful. There's a line in the book about how no one can really say they have found joy in life unless they have suffered, and that the exiles of Molokai understand joy better than anyone in human history. For every story of someone gone mad on the island and driven to their death by having their flesh ravaged by the disease, there is a story of amazing compassion (such as Father Damian, the priest who brought them hope) or a story of two people finding love in one another.

This book should also be required reading for anyone in the medical field, as one of its biggest themes is the ethical treatment of unknown and possibly dangerous disease. The doctors who invented the colony of Molokai were acting in the best interest of people as a whole (or their own political careers), but not for the patients they sent there. Anyone interested in history, in medicine, or just wanting a lesser-known story should pick up this book at once. Truly enthralling, emotionally moving, and downright heartbreaking.(less)

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Jul 27, 2008 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who like history, Hawai'i and medical history

What does it mean to "feel like a leper?" Well, the 4,000 people send to the Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai island could tell you. The Hawaiian government began sending people with lerosy to Molokai in 1866 and it's clear that original purpose was to exile and forget them. They were sent with no provisions, no building materials and no money to a place that had nothing. They were expected to grow their own food and support themselves but they were sent there in the winter and they were sick!

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