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Offshore Postcard: The Queen’s Quarantine

OFFSHORE

Nov 14, 202016:24Society & Culture

In 1881 — less than a week after King David Kalakaua left Hawaii for a yearlong tour around the world — a ship arrived in Honolulu carrying laborers sick with smallpox. The decisions that Hawaii’s future queen made to ke...

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Offshore Postcard: The Queen’s Quarantine is an episode from OFFSHORE. In 1881 — less than a week after King David Kalakaua left Hawaii for a yearlong tour around the world — a ship arrived in Honolulu carrying laborers sick with smallpox....

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Published Nov 14, 2020, 16:24 long, audio available.

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