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Atlantic triangular trade and the expansion of plantation commerce (c.1600–1807)

Atlantic triangular trade and the expansion of plantation commerce (c.1600–1807)

  1. Europe begins sustained Atlantic colonization

    Labels: European empires, Atlantic ports

  2. Triangular trade pattern takes recognizable form

    Labels: Triangular trade, Atlantic merchants

  3. Barbados shifts to large-scale sugar production

    Labels: Barbados, Sugar plantations

  4. Navigation Act tightens English imperial trade controls

    Labels: Navigation Act, English empire

  5. Barbados enacts a comprehensive slave code

    Labels: Barbados Slave, Caribbean planters

  6. Royal African Company receives its royal charter

    Labels: Royal African, West Africa

  7. France promulgates the Code Noir for colonies

    Labels: Code Noir, French colonies

  8. Treaty of Utrecht grants Britain the Asiento

    Labels: Treaty of, Asiento

  9. Molasses Act taxes non-British Caribbean imports

    Labels: Molasses Act, British North

  11. Zong massacre becomes a turning point in abolitionism

    Labels: Zong massacre, British slave

  12. Dolben’s Act begins regulating British slave ships

    Labels: Dolben's Act, British Parliament

  13. Saint-Domingue uprising sparks the Haitian Revolution

    Labels: Saint-Domingue uprising, Haitian Revolution

  14. Britain abolishes its Atlantic slave trade

    Labels: Slave Trade, British Parliament