Creating the Creole Island
Subtitle: slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius
By: Megan Vaughan.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Slavery -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century.; Racially mixed people -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century.; Creole dialects -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century.; Mauritius -- History -- To 1810.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: Engineering a colony, 1735-1767; title: Enlightenment colonialism and its limits, 1767-1789; title: Roots and routes : ethnicity without origins; title: A baby in the salt pans : mothering slavery; title: Love in the torrid zone; title: Reputation, recognition, and race; title: Speaking slavery : language and loss; title: Métissage and revolution; title: Sugar, abolition, and the marginalization of the Creole community.