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“* For indigenous Hawaiians, leprosy arrived as Damien did, an unwanted visitor from across the sea.”
“The evil effects weren’t just moral turpitude, but disease too.”
““The last king of Hawaii stood with the sugar interests,” O’Day said during a series of condemnatory speeches.”
“He was eager to learn Hawaiian, it was noted sniffily, but otherwise he had little enthusiasm for languages.”
““The native population are not too much alarmed.”
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“The disease may have stowed away as early as Captain Cook’s colonial voyage, but it only became regarded as a public health issue eighty years later.”
“It was widely believed, too, that leprosy prevention laws were a useful weapon the settler industrialists could wield against any Polynesian locals who baulked at colonization.”
“The leprous, lascivious body was a perversion that Western proselytizing could fix.”
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“Outcast won the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction.”
“Though there is no direct evidence to prove the veracity of either claim, O’Day’s speeches caused waves in Hawaii and beyond.”
“His clothes—his habitual cassock and wide-brimmed hat—were worn for days on end; he saw no reason to clean his hut in Kalawao, the leprosy colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.”