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Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius

Title
  1. Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
Published by
  1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Author
  1. Vaughan, Megan.

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Description
  1. xiv, 341 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Racially mixed people > Mauritius > History > 18th century
  2. Creole dialects > Mauritius > History > 18th century
  3. Mauritius > History > To 1810
  4. Slavery > Mauritius > History > 18th century
Contents
  1. 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.
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  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and index.