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| | The MAAT Newsletter, Volume I, Edition V, July 1997 |
 | | Kamehameha I had gained control of Hawaii because of his use of firearms, obtained from white traders; and during his reign, he relied on the advice of two captured British sailors, John Young and Issac Davis. |
 | | Hawaii gradually became one of the major trading centers of the Pacific; but the Black masses, who had never known disease, were rapidly being destroyed by venereal disease; and those who escaped this affliction, generally fell prey to liquor and firearms. |
 | | Kamehameha III's greatest achievement, however, can be found in his institution of land reform, called "The Great Mahele," or land division, which permitted commoners to share in land that had previously been the exclusive property of the king and his clients. |
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