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Clarke did not support Zoerkerism nor wished to help Black Virginians for their sack. He did however invest heavily into the Virginian African Company (VAC) and needed Salvatia to turn a profit. He began a brutal campaign down the coast throughout 1868 to pacify native resistance in the region. He was successful for the most part, but Clarke would bedridden by a fever and die on 12 January 1869. The town of Clarke would be named in his honor.
BY 1874, there were nearly 50,000 colonist in Salvatia and dozens of minor settlements across the coast. Though the only major ones were Clarke, Grandchurch and Port Victoria. Clarke was the military stronghold of the colony. The colony's arsenal and command center was in the town. General Matthew Washington, who had resigned from Parliament and accepted a commission following Clarke's death, set up his residency there. Grandchurch was the first place the Zoerkerist colonists arrived and they treated it as a holy city. They made pilgrimages to it and traveled to it for special holidays. Port Victoria was the largest port in the colony. Salvatia held large deposits of gold that attracted colonists to abandon homesteads to instead mine for gold. Walker condemned those who did but Washington and other VAC officials only saw the profit the gold could gain.
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