Barbados sugar exports and enslaved labor (1627–1834)

1. English settlement begins at Holetown

   Feb 17, 1627Labels: Holetown, English settlers, Small farms

   • Britannica
   • Barbados Wiki

2. Local representative government forms in Barbados

   Jan 1, 1639Labels: House of, White planters

   • Barbados Wiki
   • EBSCO

3. Sugar cultivation accelerates in the 1640s

   Jan 1, 1640Labels: Sugar Revolution, Plantations

   • UNESCO
   • Cambridge PDF

4. Sugar becomes dominant export by mid-century

   Jan 1, 1649Labels: Sugar export, Planters

   • UNESCO
   • Cambridge PDF

5. England tightens imperial trade through Navigation Acts

   Sep 13, 1660Labels: Navigation Acts, English shipping

   • NCpedia
   • Britannica

6. Barbados enacts comprehensive slave code

   Sep 24, 1661Labels: Barbados Slave, Slavery law

   • UNB Laws
   • SlaveryLawPower

7. Royal African Company expands enslaved labor supply

   Jan 1, 1672Labels: Royal African, Slave trade

   • PBS AIA
   • RAC Wiki

8. Barbados exports sugar, molasses, and rum widely

   Jan 1, 1700Labels: Sugar industry, Rum production

   • UNESCO
   • Cambridge PDF

9. Britain abolishes its transatlantic slave trade

   Mar 25, 1807Labels: Slave Trade, British Parliament

   • Parliament UK
   • Britannica

10. Bussa’s Rebellion challenges plantation control

    Apr 14, 1816Labels: Bussa's Rebellion, Enslaved insurgency

    • UK Archives
    • Bussa Wiki

11. Barbados creates an island-wide slave registry

    Jan 1, 1817Labels: Slave registry, Colonial administration

    • UNB Laws

12. Slavery Abolition Act ends slavery in Barbados

    Aug 1, 1834Labels: Slavery Abolition, Apprenticeship system

    • Britannica
    • Legislation