The other side of the Great Mahele


Advertiser columnist Bob Krauss writes about a new book that "suggests that the Great Mahele [of 1848] was not the controversial land rip-off of common Hawaiians that many historians have painted it. All things considered, commoners got a fair share. The rip-off came later and historians missed that, too." According to Robert Stauffer, author of "Kahana, How the Land was Lost," the rip-off was accomplished by means of a law sneaked through the Legislature in 1874 that took mortgage transactions out of the courts and into private hands, and banker Charles Reed Bishop presided over the Legislature that passed the law.


Posted: Sun - November 30, 2003 at 10:46 AM    
   
 
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