Abstract
Mauritius never had an indigenous population. The uninhabited island was first discovered by the Portuguese in 1513. The Dutch rediscovered it in the late seventeenth century and purposefully colonized it for the first time. They imported a small number of African slaves and introduced new plants, including the sugar cane that later became the backbone of the Mauritian economy. The Dutch abandoned the island around the late 1710s.
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Dinan, M., Nababsing, V., Mathur, H. (1999). Mauritius: Cultural Accommodation in a Diverse Island Polity. In: Young, C. (eds) The Accommodation of Cultural Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403915931_4
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