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Missionaries land at Kailua
1820
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Island
W Nowicki · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
New England Congregationalists built the first church in the islands and, with Hawaiian scholars, reduced the language to a written alphabet. Literacy reached among the highest rates in the world within a generation. Their descendants took the kingdom seventy years later.
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