Slavery and the Spanish

News of the rebellion spread quickly throughout the caribbean in particular. The spanish and santo domingo were soon actively trading with the slave armies. Jean francois and bisu, the two principal slave generals, both played up their cause as a defence of good king louis against the loathsome patriot revolution. They even called themselves royal armies, saying that they were only fighting to implement the will of the king. Up in the newly established united states, the reaction was a mixture of fear, dread and, in plucky american fashion, a sense of economic opportunity.