1227 Aapravasi Ghat – 2006

In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be the first site for what it called ‘the great experiment' in the use of ‘free' labour to replace slaves. Between 1834 and 1920, almost half a million indentured labourers arrived from India at to work in the sugar plantations of Mauritius, or to be transferred to Reunion Island, Australia, southern and eastern africa or the Caribbean. The buildings of are among the earliest explicit manifestations of what was to become a global economic system and one of the greatest migrations in history.

1259 Le Morne Cultural Landscape – 2008

, a rugged mountain that juts into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of Mauritius was used as a shelter by runaway slaves, maroons, through the 18th and early years of the 19th centuries. Protected by the mountain's isolated, wooded and almost inaccessible cliffs, the escaped slaves formed small settlements in the caves and on the summit of Le Morne. The oral traditions associated with the maroons, have made Le Morne a symbol of the slaves' fight for freedom, their suffering, and their sacrifice, all of which have relevance to the countries from which the slaves came – the African mainland, Madagascar, India, and South-east asia. Indeed, Mauritius, an important stopover in the eastern slave trade, also came to be known as the “Maroon republic” because of the large number of escaped slaves who lived on Le Morne Mountain.

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