Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius /
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Creating a garden of sugar: land, labor and capital, 1721-1936; Part I. Labor and Labor Relations: 3. A state of continual disquietude and hostility: maroonage and slave labor, 1721-1835; 4. Indentured labor and the legacy of maroonage: illegal absence; desertion, and vagrancy, 1835-1900; Part II. Land and the Mobilization of Domestic Capital: 5. Becoming an appropriated people: the rise of the free population of color, 1729-1830; 6. The general desire to possess land: ex-apprentices and the post-emancipation era, 1839-1851; 7. The regenerators of agricultural prosperity: Indian immigrants and their descendants, 1834-1936; 8. Conclusion.
Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius /
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Creating a garden of sugar: land, labor and capital, 1721-1936; Part I. Labor and Labor Relations: 3. A state of continual disquietude and hostility: maroonage and slave labor, 1721-1835; 4. Indentured labor and the legacy of maroonage: illegal absence; desertion, and vagrancy, 1835-1900; Part II. Land and the Mobilization of Domestic Capital: 5. Becoming an appropriated people: the rise of the free population of color, 1729-1830; 6. The general desire to possess land: ex-apprentices and the post-emancipation era, 1839-1851; 7. The regenerators of agricultural prosperity: Indian immigrants and their descendants, 1834-1936; 8. Conclusion.
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Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. ...... nts, 1834-1936; 8. Conclusion.
Originally published 1999.
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Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius /