The U.S.S WARD saw a strafing Japanese plane, which convinced them that there was a war on.
The British Army sustained many casualties.
Civilian property was destroyed as a tactic to accelerate the war.
They could pay slaveholders
As in other parts of Latin America under the system of coartación, slaves could purchase their freedom by negotiating with their master for a purchase price and this was the most common way for slaves to be freed
