Atlantic sugar plantation economy and commodity trade (1600-1850)

1. Dutch seize Pernambuco’s sugar zone

   Feb 14, 1630Labels: Pernambuco, Dutch West

   • Siege Recife
   • GlobalSecurity

2. Barbados shifts to large-scale sugar plantations

   Jan 1, 1640Labels: Barbados, Sugar plantations

   • UNESCO
   • Cambridge

3. Navigation Act restricts imperial shipping

   Oct 9, 1651Labels: Navigation Act, England

   • Britannica

4. Navigation Act reenacted; sugar becomes “enumerated”

   Jan 1, 1660Labels: Navigation Acts, Sugar enumerated

   • Britannica

5. Royal African Company expands English slave trading

   Jan 1, 1672Labels: Royal African, Slave trade

   • Britannica

6. Treaty of Ryswick formalizes French Saint-Domingue

   Sep 20, 1697Labels: Saint-Domingue, Treaty of

   • Britannica

7. Treaty of Utrecht grants Britain the Asiento

   Apr 11, 1713Labels: Treaty of, Asiento

   • Britannica
   • Asiento

8. Molasses Act targets foreign sugar competitors

   Jun 24, 1733Labels: Molasses Act, British West

   • Britannica

9. Treaty of Paris reshapes Caribbean sugar possessions

   Feb 10, 1763Labels: Treaty of, Caribbean islands

   • Treaty Paris
   • Seven Years

10. Haitian Revolution disrupts Saint-Domingue sugar output

    Aug 22, 1791Labels: Haitian Revolution, Saint-Domingue

    • Britannica
    • Cambridge Repo

11. Haiti declares independence after the revolution

    Jan 1, 1804Labels: Haiti, Independence 1804

    • Britannica
    • Cambridge Repo

12. Britain abolishes slavery; plantation labor system changes

    Aug 1, 1834Labels: Slavery Abolition, British Caribbean

    • Britannica
    • Nat Archives
    • Hist England

13. British sugar duties are equalized across sources

    Aug 3, 1846Labels: Sugar Duties, British Parliament

    • Sugar Duties