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By the time Hawaii's isolation laws were finally abolished over one hundred years later in 1969, over 8,000 people had been taken from loving families and homes and dispatched to live out their days at either the original settlement in Kalawao or later at Kalaupapa on the warmer side of the peninsula. |
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Imagine husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, and children, oftentimes forcibly uprooted from their homes because of the first signs of disease. This is why Hawaiians to this day emotionally call leprosy mai ho'oka'awale - the separating sickness. |
