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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaughan, Megan, 1954-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Slavery > Mauritius > History > 18th century.
Racially mixed people > Mauritius > History > 18th century.
Creole dialects > Mauritius > History > 18th century.
Mauritius > History > To 1810.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xiv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.