Author: Tayman, John,
Title: The Colony: the harrowing true story of the exiles of Molokai.
Description: NY, Scribner, (2006). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Untold history of the infamous American leprosy settlement on the Hawaiian island of Molokai and of the exceptional people. who managed to survive underthe most horrific circumstances. In 1866, 12 men and women and one small child were put aboard a leaky schooner and cast away to an island prison, the beginning of the island prison. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn from their families, the luckless were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutailty held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and many who did were not contagious, yet all were ensnared in a shared nightmare with little food, little medicine and terribly little hope. In all more than 8,000 were banished to the settlement: some remain there today.

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