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Plantation society
Historical context
Definition
Important plantation owners
The Sugar Refinery
The Desbassayns estate
The Desbassayns Family
Life style – Social life
Architecture
The story of the estate
The slave trade
The origin of the slaves on Bourbon island
The slave trade in the Indian Ocean
The illegal slave trade
Slavery
The ‘Code noir’
The conditions and daily lives of slaves
Resistance to slavery
The Church and slavery
Abolition
Abolisionist movements
Abolition of slavery in Reunion
After abolition
Chronology of abolitions
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Memories
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Celebrating the abolition of slavery
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Women enslaved on Bourbon island
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The Kervéguen ‘mansion’
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‘Mozambique’ slaves on Bourbon island, based on the manuscript notes of Eugène Huet de Froberville, made during his stay on the island in 1845
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The shotgun that belonged to François Mussard, slave-hunter
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1723 Letters patent
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The melody of water,
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The wills of Madame Desbassayns
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The slavery registers of the French colonial empire listed as UNESCO world heritage
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Intergenerational transmission of violence in filiation links
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10th May 2023.
The Villèle historical museum takes part in
Time of memory
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“Museums faced with slavery: the challenge of reconciling accounts of a common heritage”
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The Internet ‘Slavery Portal’ in Reunionese Creole
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2022 edition
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’EDMOND…’
Exhibition at the Villèle Museum
as from 19th December 2022
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Seminar ‘History, memories and heritages of slavery’
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Conference “
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26th November 2022 – Villèle Museum
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Exhibition: ‘The archaeology of colonial slavery’ at the Villèle museum
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A unique Reunionese heritage
‘Loisirs’. Short stories of Bourbon island
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International conference. “Slavery. From slave-trades to emancipations: thirty years of historical research”
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Homage to a great Maloya musician Françoise Guimbert (1945-2022)
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4th edition of the Great 20th December Celebration
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A multilingual website to open up to the world
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Compensation paid out to slave owners recorded in a database
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Atlas of the estate and slavery on Reunion island
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Homage to the historian Marcel Dorigny (1948-2021)
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20 years of the French law entitled ‘Loi Taubira’. The Departmental Council of Reunion announces the creation of an Atlas of Slavery for 2023
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Furcy, the trial for freedom
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Homage to the historian Hubert Gerbeau (1937-2021)
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Great digital 20th December celebrations at the Villèle museum
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Villèle Museum
December 20th, 2020 - March 28th, 2021
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Conference ‘Slavery. New approaches ’ November 28, 2020 – Villèle Museum
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The European Parliament recognises slavery as a ‘crime against humanity’
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‘The Strange Story of Furcy Madeleine: 1786-1856’
an exhibition at the Villèle Museum
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Comparative views about slavery
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Portrait Gallery
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Essential Info
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May 23rd,
a national day in homage to the victims of colonial slavery
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Tribute to historian Claude Wanquet (1937-2020)
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170th anniversary
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a full year of commemoration
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A new name for
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170th anniversary of
the abolition of slavery
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Le jour de l’Abolition
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27th April – 15th September 2019
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A digital portal for the Villèle museum
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Kayamb, bob, roulèr : new acquisitions by the Museum
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Four “heritage and creation” artists’ residencies as part of the commemoration
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The website of Villèle historical Museum, the estate and slavery
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Galerie des portraits
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Understanding the history of slavery through images www.iconotouch.org
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A mobile phone app Kikoné ?
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Creation of research grants to treat the topics of the slave trade, slavery and abolition
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Les Trois Frères (The Three Brothers)
Sandrine Plante
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Pièta By William Zitte and Antoine du Vigneaux
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Installation of work of art
Bann Maronèr
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“Slavery, a subject of history, the challenge of memory”
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