A SLAVE TRADER AND PIRATE ANCESTOR

A  SLAVE TRADER AND PIRATE ANCESTOR   Do you know whether you have an ancestor who was a slave trader or a pirate?! Many residents of the Mascarene islands are aware that they have a slave forebear and in societies which depended on servile labour, it is not uncommon to have the blood of both the enslaved and those who profited from slavery coursing through one’s veins. It is said of the Indian Ocean that the first...