Aapravasi Ghat

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Aapravasi Ghat — Attraction / activity in Port Louis, Mauritius. When slavery was abolished in 1834, slaves that had been working on the island's sugar plantations were replaced by "free" indentured labourers from India. The complex whose present name translates to "immigration depot" in Hindi was first a French building but it was expanded over the years. From 1849 until 1923 more than half a million Indians arrived here, some to be shipped onwards to other parts of the British Empire, others to be settled on Mauritius. As ancestors of about 70% of the island's population has passed through here, it's a very important site for the history and identity of Mauritius. As the practice of systematically shipping Indians to the island ended, the complex was left to decay, used for other purposes and even partially demolished in the 1970s. In 1987 it was listed as a national monument and got its present name, and in 2006 it became a {{UNESCO}}. Listed on Wikivoyage (CC-BY-SA). Source: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Port_Louis

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travel · tours

Address

Port Louis, Mauritius

City

Port Louis

Website

http://www.aapravasighat.org/