Megan VaughanCreating the Creole Island
Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
Megan Vaughan is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge University. She is the author of several books including Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990 (with Henrietta L. Moore) and Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness.
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
1. In the Beginning 1
2. Engineering a Colony, 1735–1767 33
3. Enlightenment Colonialism and Its Limits, 1767–1789 56
4. Roots and Routes: Ethnicity without Origins 91
5. A Baby in the Salt Pans: Mothering Slavery 123
6. Love in the Torrid Zone 152
7. Reputation, Recognition, and Race 178
8. Speaking Slavery: Language and Loss 202
9. Métissage and Revolution 229
10. Sugar and Abolition 253
Notes 277
Works Cited 305
Index 329
