Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius / Richard B. Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Richard Blair.

Series:

African studies series ; 99.

African studies series ; 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar workers--Mauritius--History.

Sugar workers.

Sugar trade--Mauritius--History.

Sugar trade.

Plantation life--Mauritius--History.

Plantation life.

Physical Description:

xvii, 221 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-217) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-15537-9

0-511-01611-5

OCLC:

923616562