Runaway Spanish livestock created the economic base for Caribbean piracy settlements

Evidence

The Spanish had introduced new species there—not only dogs, many of whom escaped into the wild, but also pigs and cattle—which, without human or animal predators, had thrived in the intervening century. The boucaniers hunted the wild cattle, smoked the meat using an indigenous method called the boucan, and sold it to sailors on passing ships. Gradually settlers on both Tortuga and the mainland began to grow provisions and tobacco. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 68

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the origin of the word ‘buccaneer’ (from boucan/boucaniers), the smoked-meat hunters who became pirates.
• XREF: connects to: Feral Spanish livestock on Hispaniola sustained the pirate economy that seeded Saint-Domingue — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 68; Pirates and cattle hunters seeded the French slave colony of Saint-Domingue — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 724; Spanish colonialism reduced western Hispaniola to economic stagnation before France took it — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2002
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Feral Spanish livestock on Hispaniola sustained the pirate economy that seeded Saint-Domingue — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 68; Pirates and cattle hunters seeded the French slave colony of Saint-Domingue — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 724; Spanish colonialism reduced western Hispaniola to economic stagnation before France took it — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2002

Broader Connections

• Feral Spanish livestock on Hispaniola sustained the pirate economy that seeded Saint-Domingue #corroborates (0.95) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 68