The Cape Verdean legacy on the West African Coast - A legacy told in maps, buildings, language, fabrics and art 1500-1800.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Today the Cape Verde islands are an independent country with a distinct culture encapsulated in the Kruolu/Kriol language. In the colonial past this culture extended to regions of coastal West Africa through a trading network whose reach was beyond that of Afro-European cultural contact. This is an attempt to uncover a story which is retained within a legacy of architecture, language, fabrics and art that connect Africa with the Americas and centrally position the Cape Verde islands in the making of modern history in the Atlantic World. This story is difficult to discern in shipwrecks but was carried on vessels in across the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic.  

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow