Tag: Megan Vaughan

  • Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…