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This clandestine commerce, improvised ad hoc in the absence of crown support for industry and trade, grew in importance, strengthening contacts across the frontiers. For their provisions of piezas de Indias, the Spanish had earlier depended primarily on Portugal, France, and, to a much lesser extent, England. For slaves destined specifically for Hispaniola, Portugal was the “legal” holder of Spain’s royal asentamiento, or official authorization for slave trading activities. France’s traders therefore mocked the Spain-sponsored Portuguese monopoly in supplying their own slaves to the Spanish colony.
Woodlands there have been replaced by arid zones of scrub and grasses, and the absence of forests has allowed ground moisture to evaporate at an alarming rate, exacerbating the effects of droughts, such as the one resulting in the famine of 1977. Graham Greene (1966) was not alone in noting how the verdant countryside to the east of the border put to shame Haiti’s eroded borderlands, barren of most of their topsoil, their many hillsides denuded, the consequence of generations of unrestricted wood-gathering for fuel.
Colonial neglect had isolated the Dominicans, but they developed the means to support themselves in their dealings with colonial Others. Not only ranchers of the Northern Band, but also those of the southern coastal region around Santo Domingo were transporting their cattle to this borderland of the colony, which was fast becoming a conduit of exchange and communication. Breaking the monopoly, maintaining illicit commerce with the political and ideological rivals of the empire: this was not the worst of the business in the eyes of the Spanish crown.