“New developments concerning slavery on Bourbon island or the Vision of Auguste Logeais on slavery on Bourbon island in the early 1840s”

On 4th February 2021, Prosper Eve, a historian and specialist on slavery on Reunion island, gave a public lecture entitled “New developments concerning slavery on Bourbon island or the Vision of Auguste Logeais on slavery on Bourbon island in the early 1840s.”

The lecture followed the acquisition made by the Reunion departmental library of an original edition of the work by Auguste Logeais: Loisirs. Nouvelles de Bourbon.

Historical findings move in leaps and bounds. Written documents are often presented as being official documents reflecting other persons’ vision of slavery, that is to say an incomplete vision. This is an erroneous interpretation of the ethics of history. However, the discovery of a work written by a Frenchman who stayed on Bourbon island from 1839 to January 1846 has provided us with a new perspective on this little-known chapter of history.

Prosper EVE
Emeritus University Professor
Member of the Scientific Council for the Foundation of the Memory of Slavery