J. William Cally

Feb 28, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Shenaz Patel |Bora Chung |J. William Cally |Alexander Aguayo

This is the story of an overlooked book. Louis Timagène Houat’s Les Marrons can be deemed a tour de force—a work of great literary quality, as well as an exceptional testimony of nineteenth-century slavery in the Indian Ocean, revealing the struggle carried out within the colonies themselves, a struggle which would ultimately result in the abolition of slavery by the great colonizing powers.