1830 Letter Written from Mauritius, Describing Economic and Social Conditions on the “Ebony Isle”.
Mahébourg, Mauritius: August 1830. Single unsigned fourteen-page letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches. In 1830, Mauritius was a British colony, captured from the French in 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally a Dutch colony, and the Dutch had introduced enslaved labor to the islands. Enslaved people were.....