The Rights of My People - Neil Thomas Proto

Asa and Lucy Thurston. Pioneer missionaries: Lorrin Thurston's grandparents.

Hopkins Gate, Williams College (MA). Intellectual home of the "New Divinity" and Calvinist fervor for the mission to Hawaii.

Plantation "contract" labor; criticized as "slave labor"

Dr. Thomas Lafon, missionary, led anti-slavery effort with little support.

Colonel James Blount's Macon Georgia Civil War command (1912 reunion)

John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate States Army

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; first lieutenant in the Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The missionary descendants: one legacy (The James B. Castle home in Waikiki)

Lorrin Andrews Thurston, lawyer; led coup d'état.

Sanford Ballard Dole, son of missionary parents and a lawyer; Hawaii's first president although never elected.

Navy (Marines) near Honolulu Harbor to support coup d'état.

Navy (Marines) in Honolulu to support coup d'état. Photo credit: Hawai‘i State Archives

Famous and infamous Wormley Hotel in Washington DC

Emma A'ima Nawahi, leader of Women's Patriot League; confidante, friend, and policy adviser to Liliuokalani

Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell, President of Women's Patriot League

Congressman James Blount, President Cleveland's special envoy to Hawaii, and his wife, Eugenia Wiley Blount.

Paul Neumann, Liliuokalani's lawyer in negotiations with the United States and during her trial.

Attorney General William O. Smith the son of missionary parents and a lawyer, led, what one Hawaii observer called, the "reign of terror" that anteceded a similar action by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led, what one judge called, the "terroristic methods" of "a mob."

Robert Wilcox, rebel, soldier, and Hawaii's first delegate to congress.

Letter from Fred Wundenburg, concerning the Crown lands claim (1898)

Liliuokalani regularly visited San Francisco (early 1900s). Photo credit: SF History Center

Regular correspondence (excerpt): Liliuokalani (December 16, 1898; from Washington, D.C.) to J.O. Carter (in Hawaii) and J.O. Carter (January 17,1905; from Hawaii) to Liliuokalani in Washington, D.C.

Liliuokalani in black

Liliuokalani periodically visited Boston (early 1900s). Photo credit: Quincy University Archives & Special Collections

Senator George Hoar (MA) supported annexation, later supported and befriended Liliuokalani.

Senator Richard Pettigrew (SD), a populist Republican, opposed annexation and later befriended Liliuokalani.

Liliuokalani stayed for extended periods of time in Washington DC (early 1900s)

Executive Office Building (Washington DC), adjacent to the White House, across the street from the United State Court of Claims and location of the United States Navy.