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Journal articles on the topic "Slavery in Mauritius"

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Thornton, E. Nicole. "RACE, NATIVITY, AND MULTICULTURAL EXCLUSION." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 16, no. 2 (2019): 613–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x19000237.

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AbstractThis article examines the exclusion of Afro-Mauritians (or Creoles) in Mauritian multiculturalism. Although Creoles represent nearly thirty percent of the population, they are the only major group not officially recognized in the Mauritian Constitution (unlike Hindus, Muslims, and the Chinese) and they experience uniquely high levels of socioeconomic and political marginalization despite the country’s decades-long policy of official multiculturalism. While scholarship on multiculturalism and nation-building in plural societies might explain the exclusion of Creoles as a breakdown in the forging of political community in postcolonial Mauritius, I build on these theories by focusing on the tension between diaspora and nativity evident in Mauritian public discourse. Using the politics of language policy as a case study, I examine why the Kreol language in Mauritius—the ancestral language of Creoles and mother tongue of the majority of Mauritians—was consistently rejected for inclusion in language policy until recently (unlike Hindi, Urdu, and other ethnic languages). In my analysis of public policy discourse, I map how Creole ethnic activists negotiated Kreol’s inclusion in multiculturalism and highlight their constraints. This analysis shows that through multiculturalism, non-Creole political actors have created ethnic categories of inclusion while reciprocally denoting racially-excluded others defined by their lack of diasporic cultural value. I argue that groups claiming diasporic cultural connections are privileged as “ethnics” deemed worthy of multicultural inclusion, while those with ancestral connections more natively-bound to the local territory (such as Creoles, as a post-slavery population) are deemed problematic, culturally dis-recognized, and racialized as “the Other” because their nativity gives them a platform from which to lay territorial counter-claims to the nation.

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Brixius, Dorit. "From ethnobotany to emancipation: Slaves, plant knowledge, and gardens on eighteenth-century Isle de France." History of Science 58, no. 1 (April 10, 2019): 51–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275319835431.

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This essay examines the relationship between slavery and plant knowledge for cultivational activities and medicinal purposes on Isle de France (Mauritius) in the second half of the eighteenth century. It builds on recent scholarship to argue for the significance of slaves in the acquisition of plant material and related knowledge in pharmaceutical, acclimatization, and private gardens on the French colonial island. I highlight the degree to which French colonial officials relied on slaves’ ethnobotanical knowledge but neglected to include such information in their published works. Rather than seeking to explore the status of such knowledge within European frameworks of natural history as an endpoint of knowledge production, this essay calls upon us to think about the plant knowledge that slaves possessed for its practical implementations in the local island context. Both female and male slaves’ plant-based knowledge enriched – even initiated – practices of cultivation and preparation techniques of plants for nourishment and medicinal uses. Here, cultivational knowledge and skills determined a slave’s hierarchical rank. As the case of the slave gardener Rama and his family reveals, plant knowledge sometimes offered slaves opportunities for social mobility and, even though on extremely rare occasions, enabled them to become legally free.

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Allen, Richard B. "Indian Immigrants and the Legacy of Marronage: Illegal Absence, Desertion and Vagrancy on Mauritius, 1835–1900." Itinerario 21, no. 1 (March 1997): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300022725.

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Even before the abolition of slavery on 1 February 1835, planters on Mauritius had begun to look for free agricultural labourers to work their estates. By the early 1830s, it had become apparent that the local slave population was inadequate to meet the labour needs of the colony's rapidly expanding sugar industry, and the long-term availability of this soon-to-be emancipated work force was also increasingly open to question as the decade progressed. The Act of Abolition promised owners the services of their former slaves, now transformed into ‘apprentices’, as agricultural labourers, but only for a period of six years. Some planters no doubt suspected that the apprenticeship system might come to an end earlier than scheduled, as indeed was to happen in 1839. Others had good reason to suspect that many, if not most, of their apprentices would leave the plantations upon their final emancipation, as indeed they subsequently did. Faced with these realities, Mauritian planters dispatched their agents as far afield as China, Singapore, Ethiopia and Madagascar to search out supplies of inexpensive labour. Their gaze returned continually, however, to the relative close and seemingly inexhaustible manpower of India.

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Vaughan, Megan. "Slavery and Colonial Identity in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 8 (December 1998): 189–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3679294.

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On 25 May 1785, a M. Lousteau arrived at the police station in Port Louis, Isle de France (now Mauritius) to complain that his slave Jouan had been abducted. He described Jouan as an ‘Indien’, ‘Lascar’ and ‘Malabar’, and said that he had learned that he had been smuggled on to the royal ship Le Brillant, bound for Pondicherry in southern India, by one Bernard (whom Lousteau describes as a ‘creol libre’ but who later is described as ‘Malabar, soi-disant libre’ and ‘Topa Libre’). The story of the escape had been told to him by a ‘Bengalie’ slave called Modeste, who belonged to the ‘Lascar’ fisherman, Bacou. A number of people had apparently assisted Jouan's escape in other ways—most importantly his trunk of belongings had been moved secretly from hut to hut before being embarked with him. Lousteau was a member of that ever-growing professional group of eighteenth-century France and its colonies: the lawyers. He was clerk to the island's supreme court, the Conseil Superieur. He supported a large family, he said, and the loss of Jouan represented a serious loss to their welfare. Jouan, it turned out, was no ordinary slave. He was a skilled carpenter who earned his master a significant sum every month; he was highly valued, and Lousteau had refused an offer of 5,000 livres for him. What is more, he could be easily recognised, for he was always exceptionally well turned-out and well-groomed. To facilitate in the search for his slave, Lousteau provided the following description of him:He declares that his fugitive slave is of the Lascar caste, a Malabar, dark black in colour, short in height, with a handsome, slightly thin face, a gentle appearance, with long hair … that he is very well dressed, abundantly endowed with clothes, such as jackets and shorts … wearing small gold earrings, a pin with a gold heart on his shirt, and on the arm a mark on the skin which he thinks reads DM.

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VAUGHAN, M. "Slavery, Smallpox, and Revolution: 1792 in Ile de France (Mauritius)." Social History of Medicine 13, no. 3 (January 1, 2000): 411–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/13.3.411.

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Barker, Anthony J. "Distorting the record of slavery and abolition: The British anti‐slavery movement and Mauritius, 1826–37." Slavery & Abolition 14, no. 3 (December 1993): 185–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440399308575106.

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ANDERSON, CLARE. "Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius:Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius." American Anthropologist 108, no. 1 (March 2006): 258–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.258.

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EISENLOHR, PATRICK. "Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius, by Megan Vaughan." American Ethnologist 35, no. 1 (February 2008): 1019–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00018.x.

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Walker, Clarence Earl. "Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius (1735–67) (review)." Eighteenth-Century Studies 41, no. 3 (2008): 431–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2008.0019.

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WORDEN, NIGEL. "Diverging Histories: Slavery and its Aftermath in the Cape Colony and Mauritius." South African Historical Journal 27, no. 1 (November 1992): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582479208671735.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Slavery in Mauritius"

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Teelock, Vijayalakshmi. "Bitter sugar : slavery and emancipation in nineteenth century Mauritius." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241817.

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Considine, Basil. "Priests, pirates, opera singers, and slaves: séga and European art music in Mauritius, "The little Paris of the Indian Ocean"." Thesis, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15056.

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This dissertation comprises a musical history and ethnography of musical culture on the island of Mauritius in the southern Indian Ocean. It details two interrelated performance traditions, examining the history and practice of European art music on the island in parallel with that of an endemic song-and-dance tradition called séga. Mauritius, once a notorious nest of pirates and privateers, was a famous overseas haven of French culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Wealth from trade, war, and piracy fueled a rich cultural scene that featured the latest music from Western Europe. Visitors to "The Little Paris of the Indian Ocean" also encountered séga, a percussion-driven music based on improvised songs and dances that developed amongst the island's African and Malagasy slaves. Today, séga is an integral part of the Mauritian tourism industry and is prominently featured in government cultural and educational programs. The general format of the dissertation is a musical history of Mauritius from its first human settlement in 1638 to the present day. It draws extensively on unpublished archival documents and on travelogues, letters, and diaries from visitors to provide specific details about the extent and nature of musical practice in Mauritius. It is also informed by historical newspapers, contemporaneous literature, and by recent discoveries in Mauritian archaeology. The narrative of the past half-century of Mauritian musical and cultural history takes the form of a musical ethnography and draws upon numerous interviews and on field research conducted in Mauritius from 2011-2012. The dissertation also includes a detailed study of music in contemporary Mauritian society, with special reference to the use of séga in nation-building policies, identity politics, the tourism industry, and in public education.

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Books on the topic "Slavery in Mauritius"

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David, Jacques. Mauritius. [Port Louis], Mauritius: Pygmalion Publications, 2010.

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Issur, Jacquline. Ebony is still on Mauritius. Central Milton Keynes, United Kingdom: AuthorHouse UK Ltd, 2009.

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Barker, Anthony J. Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2.

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Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

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Bitter sugar: Sugar and slavery in 19th century Mauritius. Moka, Mauritius: Mahatma Gandhi Institute, 1998.

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Allen, Richard Blair. Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Vijaya, Teelock, ed. A select guide to sources on slavery in Mauritius: And, Slaves speak out : the testimony of slaves in the era of sugar. Bell Village, Mauritius: African Cultural Centre, 1995.

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Barker, Anthony J. Slavery and antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The conflict between economic expansion and humanitarian reform under British rule. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

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Hall, M. S. (Mark S.) and Centre for Research on Indian Ocean Societies (Mauritius), eds. Grand Port: Untold stories. Mauritius: Centre for Research on Indian Ocean Societies, 2010.

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Transition from Slavery in Zanzibar and Mauritius. Codesria, 2016.

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Book chapters on the topic "Slavery in Mauritius"

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Barker, Anthony J. "The Trauma of Slavery." In Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33, 89–110. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2_7.

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Barker, Anthony J. "The Abolitionists Discover Mauritius." In Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33, 16–23. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2_2.

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Barker, Anthony J. "Slavery in 1826: A Demographic Survey." In Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33, 53–71. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2_5.

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Barker, Anthony J. "Resistance and Other Responses to Slavery." In Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33, 111–34. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2_8.

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Barker, Anthony J. "Slavery and Freedom in Port Louis." In Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33, 135–51. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2_9.

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Reddi, Sadasivam Jaganada, and Sheetal Sheena Sookrajowa. "Slavery, Health, and Epidemics in Mauritius 1721–1860." In The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity, 1749–65. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2898-5_96.

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Reddi, Sadasivam Jaganada, and Sheetal Sheena Sookrajowa. "Slavery, Health, and Epidemics in Mauritius 1721–1860." In The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity, 1–17. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_96-1.

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Reddi, Sadasivam Jaganada, and Sheetal Sheena Sookrajowa. "Slavery, Health, and Epidemics in Mauritius 1721–1860." In The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity, 1–17. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_96-2.

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Barker, Anthony J. "Introduction: History and Historiography." In Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33, 1–15. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2_1.

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Barker, Anthony J. "Slaves as Antislavery Property." In Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33, 152–62. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24999-2_10.

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