The first slaves arrived in Mauritius from Madagascar in 1639 and by the late eighteenth century, slaves accounted for around eighty percent of the islandโs population with forty percent from East Africa and just under seven percent from India.
By 1810, when the British arrived on the island with the Indians in a fleet, the slave population on the island was around 60,000.
Mauritius was the last place in the British colonies to abolish slavery, on 1 February 1835.
The abolition of slavery is commemorated at the International Slave Route Monument on the Le Morne Peninsula, where the runaway slaves are considered Mauritiusโs first freedom fighters.
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Today we are working with more than ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐, many of them small businesses. We supply to more than 80 stores nationally and employ more than 20 people in Mauritius and another 7 over in Australia.
