Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Mauritius, 1810-1833 : The Conflict Between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform Under British Rule

Name: Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Mauritius, 1810-1833 : The Conflict Between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform Under British Rule
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ISBN: 9780312159207

ISBN-10: 031215920X

ISBN-13: 9780312159207

Edition: 1996

Authors: Anthony J. Barker

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Barker (history, U. of Western Australia, Perth) investigates Britain's most unusual slave colony on an island in the Indian Ocean during a short period of economic boom and slump and vigorous anti-slavery campaigns. He reveals how the British governor of the newly conquered island connived with French planters to allow an illegal slave trade, how some abolitionist leaders quarreled among themselves and sensationalized conditions in order to increase their reputation rather than focusing on the plight of the slaves, and how the slave population differed from that in the Americans by being drawn from India and Madagascar as well as from Africa. He draws from the extensive records of the…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 236
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Preface
Key to Abbreviations in the Notes
Map of Administrative Districts of Mauritius
Introduction: History and Historiography	p. 1
The Abolitionists Discover Mauritius	p. 16
Corruption Concealed: The Farquhar Era 1810-22	p. 24
Reform Pretended: Cole and Telfair 1823-8	p. 43
Slavery in 1826: A Demographic Survey	p. 53
Upheaval and the Failure of Protection	p. 72
The Trauma of Slavery	p. 89
Resistance and Other Responses to Slavery	p. 111
Slavery and Freedom in Port Louis	p. 135
Slaves as Antislavery Property	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 163
General Population Statistics	p. 168
Distribution of Plantation Slaves	p. 170
Distribution of Personal Slaves	p. 172
Family Status	p. 173
Ethnicity in 1826	p. 178
Notes	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 212
Index	p. 219
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