Join us for the launch of Dwight Carey's first book, The Island of Bound Masters: Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius (published October 2026, University of Virginia Press).
THE ISLAND OF BOUND MASTERS: SLAVERY AND CONSTRUCTION LABOR IN MAURITIUS - How enslaved workers provided the labor as well as the architectural expertise needed to build and sustain Mauritius
Unlike most other sites of European colonialism, the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius had no indigenous population when the French set out to incorporate it into their imperial network. How, then, did its development differ from other colonial enterprises? And what lessons …
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