The island, which is also Honolulu County, has a July 1, 2019 population estimate of 974,563 (up from 953,207 people in 2010 (approximately 69% of the total 1,415,872 population of the state, with approximately 81% of those living in or near the Honolulu urban area)).

222.9 people

The last measured population density for Honolulu County, HI was 1,644 in 2018.

The former slave-owners who turned to Hawaii’s sugar industry were wary of contracting Black labor to work on plantations, though a few small groups of Black contract laborers did work on plantations on Maui and Kauai at the turn of the century. Local women were not supposed to date Black men.

Captain Cook

For over a century, the sugar industry dominated Hawaii’s economy. But that changed in recent decades as the industry struggled to keep up with the mechanization in mills on mainland U.S. That and rising labor costs have caused Hawaii’s sugar mills to shut down, shrinking the industry to this one last mill.

At the Dole Plantation, about a 45-minute drive north of Honolulu, pineapple is still grown, although in much smaller quantities that during the first half of the 20th century. The emphasis these days is on tourism instead of agricultural production.

William Hooper

But as sugar prices dropped globally and labor costs increased, Hawaii’s sugar mills have closed one by one. Today, despite the island hibiscus flower in its branding, a packet of C&H sugar is much more likely to have been grown in Vietnam or Brazil.

The insurgents established the Republic of Hawaii, but their ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which occurred in 1898….Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.