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Over time, the American Revolution of 1775-1783 profoundly impacted the destiny of the Hawaiian Islands, its monarchs, and people through launching the global fur trade, introducing constitutional rights, and through the introduction of Christianity during the American Revolution-inspired Second Great Awakening foreign missions movement. 

Portrayed is the western discovery of Hawai’i by British explorer Captain James Cook as he opened up this Polynesian kingdom to the world of global fur trade and European settlement. The Declaration of Independence of 1776 is the direct inspiration of the Declaration of Rights of the Kingdom of Hawai’i of 1839, a proclamation which for the first time gave the commoner maka’āinana Hawaiian people civil rights under a constitutional monarchy. 

The heart of Echoes of the American Revolution in Hawai‘i are profiles of the close, familial Hawai’i missionary company ties to their American Revolution heritage. The pioneer Protestant missionaries to Hawai’i were “baby boomers” born to the Revolutionary War generation; all pioneer missionary husbands and wives descended from a Patriot soldier or sailor father or grandfather. Accounts of the service records of these missionary forefathers are collected here for the first time. 

The spiritual roots of the Hawai’i mission is shown to begin in the Great Awakening of the mid-eighteenth century in the American colonies as inspired by open-air speaking English evangelist George Whitefield. This vision of the Revolution generation as one nation yearning to be freed from the yoke of Great Britain saw the young United States as as “redeemer nation” inspiring the post-Revolutionary War generation to evangelize the non-Christian world to battle “sin and superstition” as their forefathers battled for freedom from Great Britain.