Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius
- Title
- Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
- Published by
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 341 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. In the beginning -- 2. Engineering a colony, 1735-1767 -- 3. Enlightenment colonialism and its limits, 1767-1789 -- 4. Roots and routes : ethnicity without origins -- 5. A baby in the salt pans : mothering slavery -- 6. Love in the torrid zone -- 7. Reputation, recognition, and race -- 8. Speaking slavery : language and loss -- 9. Metissage and revolution -- 10. Sugar and abolition.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and index.