A beautiful island of palm-fringed beaches, lagoons and coral reefs, Mauritius ... of life on the island. The writer advocated settlement of European farmers as against importing slaves in his ...

In Lured Away: The Life History of Cane Workers in Mauritius ... reminiscent of the inhuman conditions in which slavery was practised in Mauritius. Yet, for Chan Low, indenture stood out, as ...

Legend has it that when slavery was abolished in Mauritius in 1835 ... make it a perfect escape from the whirligig of everyday life. The next day I visited Aapravasi Ghat, another Unesco World ...

Indentured labourers working on sugarcane fields in Mauritius had Ramayana like African slaves in America had the blues. The other lead singers, Chitravalee Jeetun (21), Gyandayeenee Jeetun (22 ...

In his research “Indentured Labour from India to Mauritius”, Alok ... lead to a dreadful loss of life on the one hand, or, on the other, to a new system of slavery. Then UK PM Lord John ...

“There have been dozens of films about slavery out of America but very few out of France, two or three maybe, and then 30 years ago,” he comments. Set in Mauritius in the mid 18th ...

By this time the dodo - a unique bird found only on Mauritius - has become extinct. 1710-1810 - French take possession, establishing a sugar industry based on slave labour. 1796 - Settlers break ...