sloop-trade

Updated: August 24, 2026

There was also, especially on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, a less elaborate commerce called "sloop-trade," for it was usually managed by sloops which hovered near some secluded spot on the coast, often at the mouth of a river, and informed the inhabitants of their presence in the neighbourhood by firing a shot from a cannon.

Clarence Henry Haring - The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century