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 ...

At the Port Louis in Mauritius, NDTV gives you a sneak peak ... government's first site to experiment use of free labour, instead of slaves. More than 97.5% of the labourers were from India.

The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope, taking slaves from the Zambezi valley and Mozambique. 3. The French had started up sugar and coffee plantations in Mauritius and Reunion.

The island nation of Mauritius is renowned worldwide as a top honeymoon destination, thanks to its idyllic beaches, lush ...

Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a rugged mountain that juts into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of Mauritius was used as a shelter by runaway slaves, maroons, through the 18th and early years of the ...