Le Morne Cultural Landscape, 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 ...

Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2008, Le Morne Brabant is more than a dramatic mountain rising from the Indian Ocean. It is a place where maroon communities — people who had escaped slavery — ...