British Caribbean sugar plantations (1650–1838)

1. Barbados sugar “revolution” accelerates plantation expansion

   Jan 1, 1650Labels: Barbados, Sugar plantations

   • UNESCO

2. Navigation Act reinforces England’s colonial trade controls

   Oct 9, 1651Labels: Navigation Act, England

   • Britannica
   • UK Parliament

3. Barbados passes comprehensive slave code

   Sep 24, 1661Labels: Barbados Slave, Barbados

   • UNB Laws
   • Britannica

4. Navigation Act tightens “plantation trade” rules

   Jul 27, 1663Labels: Navigation Act, British Empire

   • UK Parliament
   • Britannica

5. Royal African Company chartered to supply enslaved labor

   Jan 1, 1672Labels: Royal African, West Africa

   • Britannica
   • MHS

6. Sugar becomes a strategic commodity in imperial wars

   Jan 1, 1700Labels: Sugar economy, Imperial wars

   • UNESCO
   • Britannica

7. Zong massacre exposes insurance logic of the slave trade

   Nov 29, 1781Labels: Zong massacre, British slave

   • Britannica
   • Guardian

8. Haitian Revolution reshapes Caribbean sugar and slavery politics

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

   • Cambridge Repo
   • Britannica

9. Parliament abolishes Britain’s transatlantic slave trade

   Mar 25, 1807Labels: Slave Trade, Parliament

   • UK Parliament
   • Britannica

10. Jamaica’s Baptist War accelerates emancipation pressures

    Dec 25, 1831Labels: Baptist War, Jamaica

    • Britannica
    • NMAH

11. Slavery Abolition Act sets emancipation with “apprenticeship”

    Aug 28, 1833Labels: Slavery Abolition, British Parliament

    • Nat Archives
    • Britannica

12. Apprenticeship begins across British Caribbean plantations

    Aug 1, 1834Labels: Apprenticeship 1834, British Caribbean

    • Nat Archives
    • Britannica

13. Full emancipation ends plantation apprenticeship in British Caribbean

    Aug 1, 1838Labels: Full Emancipation, British Caribbean

    • Nat Archives
    • Britannica