Chapter 657: Political Gains

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Aureol had recently received 50,000 British Pounds from the "Abolitionist Alliance" of Santo Domingo — indeed, the very money the British had previously paid to Mr. Brissot — which he used to purchase logistical supplies needed by his troops.

Later, when the Governor of Jamaica sent troops to reinforce the Bahamas, he seized the opportunity to attack Kingston again.

Jones, carrying a vow of vengeance and 50,000 British Pounds, returned to Barbados.

He had thought he would need to lie low for a while before he could restart his great endeavour of uprising, yet he hadn't expected the British to leave Barbados so soon to support the Bahamas.

Soon after, he began leading hundreds of black soldiers in raids on sugarcane plantations.

The whole Caribbean Sea Region's independence movement surged like a colossal wave rising in a hurricane, unstoppable in its momentum.