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Author Vaughan, Megan.

Title Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DT469.M465 V378 2005    Available  ---
Description xiv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
Contents In the beginning -- Engineering a colony, 1735-1767 -- Enlightenment colonialism and its limits, 1767-1789 -- Roots and routes : ethnicity without origins -- A baby in the salt pans : mothering slavery -- Love in the torrid zone -- Reputation, recognition, and race -- Speaking slavery : language and loss -- Métissage and revolution -- Sugar, and abolition.
Subject Slavery -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery.
Mauritius.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Racially mixed people -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century.
Racially mixed people.
Creole dialects -- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century.
Creole dialects.
Mauritius -- History -- To 1810.
Chronological Term To 1810
ISBN 082233402X cloth alkaline paper
0822333996 paperback alkaline paper