Pillage of Cartagena funded the first great Saint-Domingue sugar fortunes

Evidence

In 1697 a French commander arrived in the growing colony of Saint- Domingue. Preparing to attack the Spanish port of Cartagena, he nailed an invitation on the church of the settlement at Petit-Goâve calling on flibustiers and inhabitants of the “coast of St. Domingue,” including “negroes,” to join him. The recruits from Saint-Domingue participated in the siege, capture, and brutal pillage of Cartagena. One of the officers taking part in the raid, Joseph d’Honor de Gallifet, who later served briefly as governor of the colony, invested his portion of the loot in land, establishing plantations that were to become some of the most successful in the colony. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 71

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Saint-Domingue’s wealth was seeded by loot from the 1697 sack of Cartagena; Freeing of engagés helped seed a smallholder class in early Saint-Domingue — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 73; Pirates and cattle hunters seeded the French slave colony of Saint-Domingue — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 724
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Saint-Domingue’s wealth was seeded by loot from the 1697 sack of Cartagena; Freeing of engagés helped seed a smallholder class in early Saint-Domingue — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 73; Pirates and cattle hunters seeded the French slave colony of Saint-Domingue — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 724

Broader Connections

• Saint-Domingue’s wealth was seeded by loot from the 1697 sack of Cartagena #corroborates (1.00)