Guest writer, John Vasconcelos, has shared this story of his ancestors with us. Although his ancestors did not got to Hawaii, these stories, especially about whalers, are our stories, too. —– Jose Joaquim de Freitas From Flores My maternal grandfather, Jose Joaquim de Freitas, left his natal home on the Island of Flores in the…
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Cape Verdeans to Hawaii: A Pre-Sugar Plantation Era Migration
Very few foreigners had made their way to the Hawaiian Islands by the early 1800s. by the 1830s, they appeared with more frequency. Records are few and far between. We do know that natives of Cape Verde made it to Hawaii long before the sugar plantation era. Let’s learn a little about them. Where is…