By mid 1798, the U.S. Secretary of State Timothy Pickering confirmed that the United States would accept the resumption of commercial relations in case of victory of Toussaint Louverture, became then very likely scenario, and in November 1798 Toussaint Louverture sent Joseph Bunuel meet the main merchants of Philadelphia to negotiate the resumption of business, while the American State has given itself the means to rebuild a navy of war, in order to remove the French installed in Cuba, among which Pierre and Jean Lafitte, who would feed the piracy of the 1800s in the Caribbean.