West Indies colonies, 1763
Source: Kagen, The American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States History. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1966), 82.

When the French blocked shipment of molasses from the French West Indies to France, the French colonies sought other markets -- often in North America.  (See colonial trade map.)

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