Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
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. Métissage and Revolution
10. Sugar and Abolition
Notes
Works Cited
Index