Legend has it that when slavery was abolished in Mauritius in 1835, officials approached Le Morne to inform the maroons of their freedom. Suspecting it might be a ploy by their colonial masters to ...

The history of Mauritius is soaked in stories of immigration, subjugation, slavery, exploitation and indenture. ... epidemics and cyclones made life difficult. French connection.

On 1st February 1835, Mauritius was declared free of slavery. Planters were compensated with two million pounds for their slave loss, and eventually, Mauritius gained independence in 1968.

Set in Mauritius in the mid 18th century, when the Indian Ocean Island was under French rule, No Chains, No Masters lays bare the brutal treatment of imported African slaves working on its sugar ...

Education News: In his research “Indentured Labour from India to Mauritius”, Alok Sinha detailed the origin, condition, causes and scale of poor, and sometimes outcas ...

1810 - British troops land in Mauritius after defeating French forces. 1814 - Mauritius, Seychelles and Rodrigues ceded to Britain under Treaty of Paris. 1834 - British abolish slavery.

Unlike the many accounts that deal with slavery from the outside, this book ventures inside the slave quarters to re-capture the slave's family life, music, religion, and folklore. Using a variety of ...

1810 - British troops land in Mauritius after defeating French forces. 1814 - Mauritius, Seychelles and Rodrigues ceded to Britain under Treaty of Paris. 1834 - British abolish slavery.