Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
Material type: TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.Description: xiv, 341 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780822333999 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and index.
In the beginning -- Engineering a colony, 1735-1767 -- Enlightenment colonialism and its limits, 1767-1789 -- Roots and routes : ethnicity without origins -- A baby in the salt pans : mothering slavery -- Love in the torrid zone -- Reputation, recognition, and race -- Speaking slavery : language and loss -- Métissage and revolution -- Sugar, and abolition.
Mauritius was uninhabited until the arrival of the first colonists in the late 16th century. This book traces the history of immigration to the island & the complex creole society that developed from the mixing of European, African & Indian peoples.
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