Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius,1815-53 FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book explores the context in which Indian convicts were transported to the island and put to work building the infrastructure necessary to fuel the expansion of the sugar industry. Drawing on hitherto unexplored archival material, the book examines the origins of the convicts and their organization as forced labourers. It also shows how convicts experienced transportation and integrated into the Mauritian social and economic fabric.
SYNOPSIS
When the British took control of the island of Mauritius after the abolition of the slave trade, they were faced with a labor-hungry and potentially hostile Franco-Mauritian plantocracy. Anderson (economic and social history, University of Leicester) explores the context in which Indian convicts were transported to the island and put to work on sugar plantations. She draws on previously unexplored archival material to examine origins of the convicts and their organization as forced laborers, and shows how they experienced transportation and integration in the island's social and economic fabric. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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