Landscape Transformation under Slavery, Indenture, and Imperial Projects in Bras d’Eau National Park, Mauritius

Archaeological approaches to slavery and unfree labour in Africa

“…These studies have in turn inspired similar research in Africa, where the colonial plantations of eastern Africa and the trade settlements and castles of western Africa have received growing attention in the last few decades (e.g. Croucher 2007;Thiaw 2011;Apoh et al 2018;Haines 2018). Although supported by historical evidence, an archaeological approach towards these colonial sites has given visibility to the enslaved as opposed to the enslavers, emphasising different forms of resistance, agency and adaptation to life in unfreedom, with the lasting pain and horror that this entailed.…”

No such thing as invisible people: toward an archaeology of slavery at the fifteenth-century Swahili site of Songo Mnara

“…Such studies from the colonial Atlantic world have to some degree inspired research in East Africa. Through Croucher's (2015) work on Zanzibar and studies by Seetah (2015) and Haines (2018Haines ( , 2020 on Mauritius, the plantation systems of East Africa are becoming integrated into the archaeology of colonial-era slavery, adding important new insights to this understudied region. In addition, Kusimba (2004) has taken a landscape approach to exploring the responses of inland communities in Tsavo Hills, Kenya, to increased slave raids associated with the growing demand in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds, an approach also successfully used by scholars working in West Africa (MacEachern 1993;Soumonni 2003;Kankpeyeng 2009).…”