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Excerpt from Notes Upon the Island of Dominica (British West Indies): Containing Information for Settlers, Investors, Tourists, Naturalists, and Others; With Statistics From the Official Returns Also Regulations Regarding Crown Lands and Import and Export Duties
Eight years afterwards the French became masters of the island, and its trade dwindled, and much loss and distress followed.
After Rodney's great naval victory over the French off Dominica on 12th April 1782, a new arrangement of territory had to be made, and in I 783 the island was once more restored to the British, which led to a revival of its commerce and agricultural industry, principally the growing of coffee. This was brought about not by any great in¿ux of British settlers, but rather by a readjustment Of the agricultural and mercantile arrangements Of the island. The French planters remained as the principal agricultural producers, and the British were principally engaged in buying their produce for exportation.
That the trade was one of some magnitude is evident, for Atwood, in his History of Dominica.
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