When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: slavery in hawaii

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Africans in Hawaii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africans_in_Hawaii

    A former slave who accompanied the American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii, Betsey Stockton started the first mission school in Lahaina open to the common people. [8] Prior to independence in 1975, many Cape Verdeans emigrated to Hawaii from drought-stricken Portuguese Cape Verde, formerly an overseas province of Portugal.

  3. Alabama Camps - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Camps

    Hawaii between the years 1835-1946 had many plantations which required forced labor in order to function. [1] While most of the workforce was made up of immigrants from Asia, in very rare instances African American slaves were shipped to Hawaii from the mainland of the United States. [2]

  4. Ancient Hawaii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Hawaii

    A broad and degrading category of servants, slaves, and outcasts. [29] Marriage between higher castes and the kauwā was strictly forbidden. The kauwā worked for the chiefs, and males were often used as human sacrifices (via drowning) at the luakini heiau. (Lawbreakers of other castes and defeated political opponents were also sometimes used ...

  5. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_states_and_free_states

    There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these ...

  6. History of slavery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery

    Slavery as an institution was not banned until 1848. At this time Iceland was a part of Denmark-Norway but slave trading had been abolished in Iceland in 1117 and had never been reestablished. [341] Slavery in the French Republic was abolished on 4 February 1794, including in its colonies.

  7. Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_immigration...

    Puerto Rico and Hawaii were unincorporated and incorporated territories of the United States respectively; however, the passage of the Jones–Shafroth Act of 1917, the same year that the United States entered World War I, gave American citizenship, with limitations, to the Puerto Rican residents in Puerto Rico but excluded those who resided in ...

  8. Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian...

    The Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani that took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oahu.The coup was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German [6]) and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu.

  9. Hawaii and the American Civil War - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_and_the_American...

    After the outbreak of the American Civil War, the Kingdom of Hawaii under King Kamehameha IV declared its neutrality on August 26, 1861. [1] [2] However, many Native Hawaiians and Hawaii-born Americans (mainly descendants of the American missionaries), abroad and in the islands, enlisted in the military regiments of various states in the Union and the Confederacy.