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- As early as the late 17th century, Portuguese have been drawn to North America. Economic opportunity and political conditions have influenced when and where immigrants from Portugal settled and what kind of life they were able to build for themselves in the United States.
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From whalers, to forty-niners, to disaster refugees, to those searching for better opportunities, the U.S. experienced waves of Portuguese immigrants from the 1800s into this millennium. Years: 1820 — 2009. Portuguese explorers and seamen were coming to the east coast of America in 1497 and probably earlier.
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Nov 1, 1990 · The materials listed below encompass both the beginnings of the Portuguese movement across the Atlantic and the reasons for its continuation into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They provide historical, political, and economic perspectives on Portuguese immigration to the United States.
- The First Portuguese Immigrants
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- The 2nd Wave of Portuguese Immigrants
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The first Portuguese sailor, Miguel Corte-Real, may have come to Massachusetts as far back as the early 16th century. A 40-ton boulder now in Dighton Rock State Park is inscribed with writing that Brown professor Edmund B. Delabarrebelieved was written by Corte-Real. In 1912, Delabarre wrote that the inscription on the Dighton Rock said, “I, Miguel...
Portuguese families started to come to the United States in larger numbers around 1870 just as the whaling industry began to decline. They worked in New England’s booming textile mills, in whaling and fishing. And the women worked as seamstresses in garment shops. In the late 19th century, many Portuguese, mainly Azorean and Madeiran, settled in Pr...
Even during the Great Depression, Portuguese immigrants found opportunity in America. As Capt. Joseph Captiva, a Provincetown fisherman, told a government interviewer in 1938, The newcomers began to form fraternal benefit societies. They also printed their own newspapers, such as A civilizacao luso-americano in Boston.They maintained strong ties to...
A series of volcanic eruptions in the Azores from 1957-58spurred the second wave of Portuguese immigration to the United States. The Capelinhos volcano, on the coast of the Azorean island of Faial, erupted on Sept. 27, 1957. And it didn’t stop until Oct. 24, 1958. No one was killed, but the volcanic activity covered the island with ash. It also des...
People of Portuguese descent make up only four-tenths of one percent (0.4 percent) of the entire U.S. population. But in Rhode Island, they make up 9.7 percent of thepopulation. As a result, that’s the densest concentration of Portuguese in the country. Massachusetts has the second densest concentration of Portuguese-Americans, with 6.2 percent. Co...
Hence the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament in early August attracts tens of thousands to New Bedford from nearby. They come for folk dancing, pop music, soccer and, most of all, traditional Madeiran food. They’ll feast on carne de espeto, bacalhau, linguica, ceviche, bifana sandwiches and milho frito. (For a description of these foods, click here.) T...
Portuguese people have had a very long history in the United States, since 1634. The first documented Portuguese to live in colonial America was Mathias de Sousa, possibly a Sephardic Jew of mixed African background. [4] . The oldest synagogue in the country, the Touro Synagogue, is named after one of these early Portuguese Jews, Isaac Touro .
As early as the late 17th century, Portuguese have been drawn to North America. Economic opportunity and political conditions have influenced when and where immigrants from Portugal settled and what kind of life they were able to build for themselves in the United States.
Portuguese emigration to the United States began with whalers from the Azores and Cape Verde islands. Most settled in New England where significant communities grew up in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Portuguese Jews emigrated early to America as well as to other countries to escape persecution in their native land. Mathias de Sousa is the first Portuguese immigrant on record; he arrived in Maryland in 1634.
