...Vijaya Teelock 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 REFLECTIONS Breaking the Wall of Silence: Slavery in Mauritian Historiography Vijaya Teelock Mauritius is a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is isolated, and even the Internet...

... “Reflections.” Four of the responses came from authors living and working outside of the United States: Abolade Adeniji (Nigeria), Rafael Hernández (Cuba), Masao Nishikawa (Japan), and Vijaya Teelock (Mauritius). While this list of authors certainly represents a small but valuable sampling of opinion...

... in the Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities at the Uni- versity of Mauritius. She is the author of Bitter Sugar: Sugar and Slavery in Nineteenth- Century Mauritius (1998) and coeditor, with Edward Alpers, of History, Memory, and Identity (2001). She participates in the Origins Project...

... . New York: Routledge, 2003. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture . New York: Routledge, 2005. Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. MARHO: The Radical...

... shipments of captive Africans to the Persian Gulf region, India, China, and Japan; the Dutch transported them to India and Indonesia; the French shipped them to India and the Mascarene Islands (Bourbon and Mauritius); the British took them to India, Mauritius...

... regardless of the kinds of processes taking place. Whether it was the production of coffee or tobacco in Africa, or sugar cane in the Caribbean from the 1920s through the 1950s, or the transfer of raw data via computer from Jamaica, Mauritius, or the Philippines in the 1990s to facilitate...

... production in Cuba, Mauritius and Java. In its hour of desperation, however, coffee appeared on the horizon as the savior. The transformation from sugar to coffee turned Brazil upside down. The northeast was abandoned in favor of the southern states of Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo and Minas...

...-­Caribbean advocacy of the central system, see, e.g., the Louisiana planter John Dymond’s “Louisiana Sugar Industry”; cf. Heitmann, Louisiana Sugar Industry, 66. For Mauritius, see de Boucherville, “L’avenir d’une Colonie sucrière,” 464. 44. García Muñiz, “Louisiana’s ‘Sugar Tramps...

... (Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa, 1974), 70 – 93; Paul Botha, “A Brief History of South African Surfing,” in Surfing in South Africa, ed. Steve Pike (Cape Town: Book, 2001), 10 – 18; Mark Jury, Surfing in Southern Africa, Including Mauritius and Reunion (Cape Town: Struik, 1989), 11 – 13...

...: The Attorney General of The Rqublic of Botswana vs Unity Dow: Court Documents, Judgments, Cases and Materials (Gaborone: Lentswe La Lesedi, 1995), 70, lists Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia in southern Africa, as well as Uganda, Mauritius, and Gambia. Similar laws in Zimbabwe are criticized in Women...