It has been a long day of working on the fields of the sugar plantation. My back is sore and my feet ache. All I want to do is rest, but I still have my own little vegetable garden to tend to. I have to wake up early to go to my job in the fields so I never have time to water my vegetables before work. It is hard work but I believe it is necessary. The only way Saint Domingue can manage to stay afloat right now is if we have a well established system of international trade. We are extremely vulnerable right now after our revolution, and our best chance at maintaining a free nation is to rebuild our economy and develop a better relationship with France. I was brought to Saint Domingue over a decade ago, my entire life is here now, and I am prepared to do my part to sustain what I know, and the new opportunities that this revolution has brought.