The Ministry of Arts and Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Mauritius organized a launching ceremony for the new Intercontinental Slavery Museum in Port-Louis on 20 October 2020 together with its ...

Legend has it that when slavery was abolished in Mauritius in 1835, officials approached Le Morne to inform the maroons of their freedom. Suspecting it might be a ploy by their colonial masters to ...

Indenture was introduced to Mauritius by the British authorities precisely with a view to preempt the abolition of slavery in 1835, its subsequent four-year apprenticeship period and the much ...

The slave mortality rate remained high during the early British period, when the slave trade to Mauritius became illegal. In early 1818, the Hélène lost 20% of her slave cargo, while sailing ...

Education News: In his research “Indentured Labour from India to Mauritius”, Alok Sinha detailed the origin, condition, causes and scale of poor, and sometimes outcas ...

Due to huge pressure from the anti-slavery lobby, slavery was finally abolished in the British part of the colonial empire before the French part. Sugar plantations were vacant and the British ...

1810 - British troops land in Mauritius after defeating French forces. 1814 - Mauritius, Seychelles and Rodrigues ceded to Britain under Treaty of Paris. 1834 - British abolish slavery.

After hub problems in Madagascar 30 years ago, this year Mauritius threw chain problems at Duncan Guy. Picture: Duncan Guy. For much of last month, cycling in Mauritius gave me a “chain reaction”.

The President of the Republic of Seychelles, Mr Wavel Ramkalawan has been invited by the Prime Minister of Mauritius, H.E Pravin Jugnauth as the Chief Guest at the commemoration of the 189th ...