Qualla: Laplace Affair https://qualla.com/laplace-affair en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Laplace Affair https://qualla.com/laplace-affair Laplace Affair: Introduction https://qualla.com/laplace-affair/ On Christmas Eve, 1831, chiefs loyal to the Hawaiian queen regent Kaahumanu loaded French Catholic priests onto a ship called the Waverly in Honolulu Harbor and deported them. Native Hawaiian converts who had embraced Catholicism were arrested and imprisoned. Most were released only after Protestant ministers had beaten them into renouncing their faith. Eight years later, a French frigate appeared off the coast, and the Kingdom of Hawaii discovered that persecuting the subjects of a European power had consequences that traveled across oceans.

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/9/1/laplace-affair-wp/8e91-laplace-affair-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Laplace Affair: The Protestant Queen https://qualla.com/laplace-affair/ The roots of the crisis lay in the power vacuum that followed the death of Kamehameha the Great in 1819. His widow, Kaahumanu, assumed the role of regent and converted to Protestant Christianity under the influence of New England missionaries from the American Board of Commission...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/9/1/laplace-affair-wp/8e91-laplace-affair-the-protestant-queen.mp3 0:06 2 full Laplace Affair: The Frigate Artemise https://qualla.com/laplace-affair/ France did not forget its expelled priests. On July 10, 1839, Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace sailed the frigate Artemise into Hawaiian waters carrying orders that left little room for diplomacy. His instructions from Paris were blunt: destroy the impression that France c...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/9/1/laplace-affair-wp/8e91-laplace-affair-the-frigate-artemise.mp3 0:06 3 full Laplace Affair: The Edict of Toleration https://qualla.com/laplace-affair/ King Kamehameha III, facing a military force he could not resist, capitulated in a week. On July 17, 1839, he issued the Edict of Toleration, proclaiming that "the Catholic worship be declared free, throughout all the dominions subject to the king of the Sandwich Islands; the mem...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/9/1/laplace-affair-wp/8e91-laplace-affair-the-edict-of-toleration.mp3 0:06 4 full Laplace Affair: Sovereignty and Its Limits https://qualla.com/laplace-affair/ The Laplace affair exposed the precarious position of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the nineteenth-century Pacific. A sovereign nation had been compelled to change its domestic laws under direct military threat from a European power. The confrontation foreshadowed a pattern that would ...

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