The Daily Herald (Chicago, Illinois), November 28, 1903 The Nashua Reporter (Nashua, Iowa), December 3, 1903 Bessemer Herald (Bessemer, Michigan), December 5, 1903   Ten Thousand Starve (105 Years Ago) Inhabitants of the Cape Verde Islands are Famine-Stricken.      The people of the Cape Verde Islands are famine-stricken.  Letters received in this country tell a frightful tale of loss of life, for in the island of Santiago alone the dead number 10,00... Read More

New Hampshire (NH) is not one of the places that are associated with Cape Verdean immigration.  However, it was a destination of some Cape Verdeans as early as the Civil War.  Half a century later, World War I draft registration cards and a passport application shows several Cape Verdeans living in New Hampshire during the war.  

Records indicate that one colored troop in the Civil War that came from New Hampshire was born in “Cape de Verde Islands.”   This... Read More