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The following compilation is a work in progress. The information has
been gleaned from a wide variety of sources, including the accounts of
historians Sena Barcelos, Antonio Carreira, and Daniel Pereira,
ethnographers Felix Monteiro and Luis Romano, official U.S.
Customs records, the research of Richard Lobban, Deidre Meintel,
Marilyn Halter, George Brooks, and other contemporary American
scholars, interviews with Cape Verdean-American community
scholars, and many other sources who are listed in the bibliography of
this Home Page. It is intended to provide students of the "Cape
Verdean experience" with a chronological framework within which to
understand the many historic, socio-economic, geo-political,
climatic, and other factors contributing to the emergence of Cape
Verdean cultural identity and its expression in the Islands, in
diaspora communities in the United States and elsewhere. Many events
included in this compilation are causally related. Others are not,
and causal relationships should not be inferred. Your comments,
suggested additions, modifications, etc., are solicited and should
be addressed to Ray Almeida at noskunos@erols.com.
Under development, last updated on March 14, 1997.
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