Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius.

Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Note on currencies -- Other books in the series -- Introduction -- Creating a garden of sugar: land, labor, and capital, 1721-1936 -- Part 1: Labor and labor relations -- A state of continual disquietude and hostility: maroonage and slave labor, 1721-1835 -- Indentured labor and the legacy of maroonage: illegal absence, desertion, and vagrancy, 1835-1900 -- Part 2: Land and the mobilization of domestic capital -- Becoming an appropriated people: the rise of the free population of color, 1729-1830 -- The general desire to possess land: ex-apprentices and the post-emancipation era, 1839-1851 -- The regenerators of agricultural prosperity: Indian immigrants and their descendants, 1834-1936 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.