Atlantic sugar plantations and the triangular trade (1650–1830)

1. Barbados shifts to sugar plantation production

   Jan 1, 1640Labels: Barbados, Sugar plantations

   • Britannica

2. Navigation Act restricts colonial shipping

   Oct 9, 1651Labels: Navigation Act, England

   • Navigation Acts
   • BCW Project

3. Barbados enacts comprehensive slave code

   Sep 24, 1661Labels: Barbados, Slave code

   • UNB Laws
   • Wiki

4. Royal African Company chartered for African trade

   Sep 27, 1672Labels: Royal African, England

   • UK Archives
   • Bodleian

5. Treaty of Utrecht grants Britain the Asiento

   Apr 11, 1713Labels: Asiento, Treaty of

   • South Sea Co

6. Molasses Act imposes duties on foreign molasses

   May 17, 1733Labels: Molasses Act, Parliament

   • Britannica
   • Molasses Act

7. Treaty of Paris redraws Atlantic imperial holdings

   Feb 10, 1763Labels: Treaty of, Seven Years'

   • Britannica

8. Sugar Act strengthens customs enforcement in colonies

   Apr 5, 1764Labels: Sugar Act, British customs

   • Britannica

9. Somerset v Stewart limits forced removal from England

   Jun 22, 1772Labels: Somerset v, Lord Mansfield

   • English Heritage
   • Somerset Case

10. Zong massacre exposes brutality of slave shipping

    Nov 29, 1781Labels: Zong, slave ship

    • Britannica
    • Wiki

11. Slave uprising in Saint-Domingue begins Haitian Revolution

    Aug 21, 1791Labels: Saint-Domingue, Haitian Revolution

    • Haitian Rev
    • 1791 Rebellion

12. Britain abolishes its transatlantic slave trade

    Mar 25, 1807Labels: Slave Trade, Britain

    • UK Parliament
    • Slave Trade Act

13. U.S. bans importation of enslaved people

    Jan 1, 1808Labels: U S, United States

    • Congress gov
    • Importation Act

14. UK makes slave trading a felony

    May 14, 1811Labels: Slave Trade, Britain

    • Felony Act

15. British Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent

    Aug 28, 1833Labels: Slavery Abolition, British Parliament

    • Britannica
    • 1833 Act