In the wake of the adoption of the 1685 Code Noir in the French colonies in the Caribbean, the said appeal reflected the hope that similar utilization of African labour would lead to profits for investors. Louis XIV assented to the appeal to support African slavery in New France on 1 May 1689 and reiterated this in 1701. While the upheavals of King William's War and the War of Spanish Succession affected international trade routes during this period, the institution of slavery continued to grow in the colony, leading the intendant Jacques Raudot to issue an ordinance on 13 April 1709 establishing that all enslaved Africans and Indigenous peoples who had been and who would be purchased 'shall be the property of those who have purchased them and will be their slaves' (Winks, 2000, p. 6). In 1716, the intendant Michel Bégon repeated the observation on the lack of labour and appealed for an expanded trade in enslaved Africans who could 'till the soil, fish for cod, saw timber, build ships, and exploit the iron mines' (Winks, 2000, p. 8).