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When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius. Indentured labour began with Chinese, Malay, African and Malagasy labourers, but ultimately, it was India which supplied the much needed laborers to Mauritius.
In 2009 the government of Mauritius instigated the independent Truth and Justice Commission (TJC) to explore the impact of slavery and indentured servitude in Mauritius. It also investigated the dispossession of land and made recommendations for the welfare of descendants of slaves and indentured labourers. [7] The TJC published its report in ...
Following the defeat of Napoleon and the loss of Mauritius to Great Britain, the territory continued to rely upon slave labour until slavery's abolition in the British Empire in the 1830s. [3] This would not end exploitation however, as the plantocracy , reliant upon cheap labour, turned to indentured labourers from India and China to work the ...
In February 1706 another revolt was organised by the remaining maroons as well as disgruntled slaves. When the Dutch abandoned Dutch Mauritius in 1710 the maroons stayed behind. [citation needed] When representatives of the French East India Company landed on the island in 1715 they also had to face attacks by the Mauritian maroons. Significant ...
This category covers the owners of slaves who lived on the island of Mauritius where slavery was abolished after implementation of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. [ 1 ] References
Slave traders brought a total of 650 slaves to Mauritius from Madagascar, Mozambique, India, and West Africa. [ 4 ] International trade , in particular long-distance trade, grew in the 18th century and by the 1780s, France was the largest trading maritime power in Europe .
Mauritian Creoles are the people on the islands of Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agaléga and the Chagos Archipelago and in the wider overseas Mauritian diaspora who trace their roots to continental Africans who were brought to Mauritius under slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
In December 1942 labourers of Belle Vue Harel Sugar Estate were dissatisfied with the low wages being paid by the estate owners, the Harel and Rousset clans. [3] Four of these workers (Andrée Moonsamy, Hurrynanan Boykount, Sirkisson Seenath and Kistnasamy Mooneesamy) wrote and signed a letter on behalf of all the estate's workers and sent it to the Director of Labour Department to ask for ...