Aapravasi Ghat

• Saturday closing hours: 09:00- 12:00
• The site is closed on Sudays and Public Holidays

The Depot was built in 1849 to receive indentured labourers from India, Eastern Africa, Madagascar, China and Southeast Asia to work on the island’s sugar estates as part of the 'Great Experiment’. This experiment was initiated by the British Government, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, to demonstrate the superiority of ‘free’ over slave labour in its plantation colonies. The buildings of Aapravasi Ghat are among the earliest explicit manifestations of what would become a global economic system.

The Aapravasi Ghat site stands as a major historic testimony of indenture in the 19th century and is the sole surviving example of this unique modern diaspora. It represents not only the development of the modern system of contractual labour, but also the memories, traditions and values that these men, women and children carried with them when they left their countries of origin to work in foreign lands and subsequently bequeathed to their millions of descendants for whom the site holds great symbolic meaning.

• Included full transportation to the sight, including pick up and drop off from any hotel / place of accommodation anywhere in Mauritius.
• The Prices are per vehicle referring to the number of passengers applicable for each vehicle type.
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