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Betsey Stockton was born into slavery in Princeton, New Jersey in 1798. She was owned at one - point by the President of ay Princeton College, Rev. Ashbel e Green. In 1823 she arrived in the Hawaiian islands in Lahaina, Maui. There she quickly learned the Hawaiian language and "founded Maui's first school for hag ® the maka'ainana (people) which is now the site of Lahainaluna School.

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Betsey Stockton was born into slavery in Princeton, New Jersey in 1798. She was owned at one - point by the President of ay Princeton College, Rev. Ashbel e Green. In 1823 she arrived in the Hawaiian islands in Lahaina, Maui. There she quickly learned the Hawaiian language and "founded Maui's first school for hag ® the maka'ainana (people) which is now the site of Lahainaluna School.
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Betsey Stockton, born into US slavery, was in possession of the President of Princeton. She was another of many women of color who helped build schools in Hawaii. Hawaii became the most literate country in the world (98%) when Europeans and the US only educated the elites.

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