Slaves and Sugar: ‘Black Gold’ and ‘White Gold’ of Mauritius’ Economy
In the 18th and 19th centuries, sugar was considered the ‘white gold’ in the commercial arenas of the world, but it was accrued by the scourge of ‘black gold’ – slave labor.
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And before there is anglophobe white guilt by omission, the Island was named after a stadholder Maurits and was a dutch east india company possession until 1710 the British had it from 1810 when they had just started stopping the African slave trade in 1807 and completely abolished it by 1833 so a rather short lived industry.