Les Marrons: Marronnage I Ile Bourbon I Ile de la Réunion I | 
As an artifact itself more interesting than the actual narrative it presents, “The Maroons”, the first ever Réunionese novel, tells a story of marronage on the French colony of Bourbon (now Réunion) in the Indian Ocean. First published in 1844, the book was suppressed by the French authorities & was only rediscovered in the 1970s. Shoutout to the New York Public Library Bookmobile by Yankee Stadium— this + 4 others = my first check out from NYPL!
Things are very busy at the moment, and I haven't finished the books I've started, but I'm still going to start a new one, in honour of “fètkaf“, on December 20th, the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Reunion Island (https://ile-de-la-reunion.net/en/events/fet-kaf/). Les Marrons, written by a Reunionese mulatto author, was published in 1844, 4 years before the abolition.
(picture of the Piton de la fournaise volcano)
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