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Le Morne Brabant
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How it came to be
On a peninsula at the south-western tip of Mauritius rises Le Morne Brabant, a basalt mountain 556 metres high. Through the 18th and early 19th centuries, runaway slaves known as maroons made small settlements in its caves and on its summit, protected by wooded, nearly inaccessible cliffs.
Mauritius was an important stopover in the eastern slave trade, and enslaved people were brought from mainland Africa, Madagascar, India and South-east Asia. So many escapees lived on the mountain that the island became known as the Maroon republic. The mountain is named after the Brabant, a Dutch East India Company ship that ran aground here on 29 December 1783.
According to oral tradition, after slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, a police party came to tell the maroons they were free, and those on the summit, taking it for a raid, leapt to their deaths. Since 1987 the date has been marked as the annual commemoration of abolition. The mountain was inscribed in 2008.
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