Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies

by Sue Peabody

Book Overview

Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, R union and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries.

As a child, Madeleine was pawned by her impoverished family and became the slave...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197563619
• ISBN13: 9780197563618
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.5"