The plantations of Saint-Domingue and of the Antilles more generally were constantly disrupted by warfare, a natural and predictable activity undertaken by the competitive imperial states that sponsored the Antillean plantation complex. This chapter explores the effects of recurring warfare on the slave population of the Cul de Sac plantation, the organization of labor on the plantation, the marketing and production of sugar, and, finally, the prospects for long-term production. The fact of constant warfare forced planters to adopt a short-term perspective that was not conducive to economically transformative growth on the island. Warfare also exacerbated underlying tensions between competing social groups: free people of color used military service in order to advance their claims for political and civil freedom against an increasingly racially volatile population.