Georges becomes cultured, deeply educated, and popular in Parisian high society. In France, the brothers are separated when the older brother gets a job on a merchant ship. Afterward, concerned about possible retaliation from Henri's father, Pierre father sends Georges and his older brother Jacques to France to be educated. Henri Malmédie, the son of a wealthy planter, begins to mock George for the treatment meted to his father, resulting in a fight breaking out between the two. Refusing to acknowledge that a person of colour saved them, the other planters ignore Pierre's accomplishment. Instead, Pierre leads a group of Black militiamen and successfully rout a British column, saving the lives of many of the planters. Because Pierre is a mulatto, the other planters on the island (who are all white) refuse to let him fight alongside them. As a child, he witnesses the British invasion of Isle de France. While also being a mulatto, Georges is very light-skinned to the point where he can pass for being white. The novel concerns the life of Georges, the son of a wealthy mulatto planter named Pierre Munier, on the French colony of Mauritius.
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