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BOOK REVIEWS 313 category in the black/white dichotomy: the Indian slave who was another category altogether. Slave owners were never able to place this category of persons in any of the preconceived moulds that have emerged of Caribbean slavery and applied wholesale to Mauritius. In this chapter, Megan Vaughan also attempts to interpret the slave situation according to Foucault’s discourse on sexuality. Equally import- ant, she contests, convincingly, Patterson’s argument that the master’s sense of reputation was based on the degradation of the slave. In the Mauritian cases she highlights, the opposite seems also true: that a master’s status was enhanced, for example, by the presence of ‘exotically dressed slaves’ (p. 161). Status and reputa- tion of the owners and the slaves are also under discussion in Chapter 7: the rapidly changing economic fortunes of owners and the conflicts occurring between slave owners. The amazing story of Giraud, a Martiniquan ‘free black’ exiled in Ile-de- France, points to the inability of white colonial society to comprehend and deal with other groups that did not form part of the black slave/white free dichotomy. Chapter 8 explores language, literacy, and oral cultures among slaves and their French owners. There are, in
African Affairs – Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 10, 2006
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