Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius.

Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Note on currencies -- Other books in the series -- Introduction -- Creating a garden of sugar: land, labor, and capital, 1721-1936 -- Part 1: Labor and labor relations -- A state of continual disquietude and hostility: maroonage and slave labor, 1721-1835 -- Indentured labor and the legacy of maroonage: illegal absence, desertion, and vagrancy, 1835-1900 -- Part 2: Land and the mobilization of domestic capital -- Becoming an appropriated people: the rise of the free population of color, 1729-1830 -- The general desire to possess land: ex-apprentices and the post-emancipation era, 1839-1851 -- The regenerators of agricultural prosperity: Indian immigrants and their descendants, 1834-1936 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This social and economic history of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the mid-1930s, describes changing relationships between different elements in the society, slave, free and maroon, and East Indian indentured populations. First published in 1999, it brings the Mauritian case to the attention of scholars of slavery and plantation systems.

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