Raymond A. Almeida

CABO VERDE CHRONOLOGICAL REFERENCES


INTRODUCTION.

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.