African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers ... up sugar and coffee plantations in Mauritius and Reunion. A number of different ...
In July 1761, the French ship Utile - a frigate of the French East India Company - transporting slaves from Madagascar to Mauritius ran onto the reefs of the island. As it was a frigate ...
African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers ... up sugar and coffee plantations in Mauritius and Reunion. A number of different ...
Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a rugged mountain that juts into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of Mauritius was used as a shelter by runaway slaves, maroons, through the 18th and early years of the ...