Cape Verde
How enslaved Cape Verdeans forcefully shipped to Archipelago region survived cruel diseases like malaria
Malaria cases in the Archipelago region are generally high, but, strangely the same is not the case among many Cape Verdeans. This is because the enslaved Africans who were forcefully shipped to Cape Verde by Portuguese sailors had genes that were resistant to malaria. Though the enslaved were bitten by mosquitoes on the shores of…
