Title Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 341 pages) : illustrations Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Slavery -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century Racially mixed people -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century Creole dialects -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- Africa -- General. Creole dialects Racially mixed people Slavery Sklaverei Slavernij. SUBJECT Mauritius -- History -- To 1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082324 Subject Mauritius Mauritius Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822386919 0822386917

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