Indentured labor on Caribbean sugar plantations: Barbados and Jamaica (1627–1834)

1. English settlement begins in Barbados

   Feb 17, 1627Labels: Holetown, English settlers

   • Britannica
   • Barbados

2. Barbados creates an elected House of Assembly

   Jun 26, 1639Labels: House of, Barbados planters

   • Assembly
   • Barbados

3. Barbados sugar expansion accelerates in the 1640s

   Jan 1, 1640Labels: Sugar Revolution, Barbados

   • UNESCO
   • Barbados

4. England captures Jamaica from Spain

   May 27, 1655Labels: Jamaica, English occupation

   • Invasion
   • Western Design

5. Barbados passes the Master and Servant Code

   Jan 1, 1661Labels: Master and, Barbados

   • Servant Code

6. Barbados enacts a comprehensive slave code

   Sep 24, 1661Labels: Barbados Slave, slavery law

   • UNB Laws
   • Slave Code

7. Jamaica issues an act governing servants

   Jan 1, 1664Labels: Jamaica Servants, Jamaica

   • Law Power

8. Spain recognizes English possession of Jamaica

   Jul 8, 1670Labels: Treaty of, Spain

   • Treaty
   • Britannica

9. Jamaica’s sugar plantation economy expands rapidly

   Jan 1, 1700Labels: Jamaica, sugar plantations

   • Jamaica
   • UNESCO

10. Molasses Act protects British West Indies sugar interests

    Jan 1, 1733Labels: Molasses Act, British Parliament

    • Britannica

11. Tacky’s Revolt breaks out in Jamaica

    Apr 1, 1760Labels: Tacky s, Jamaica

    • Guardian
    • Jamaica

12. Baptist War erupts on Jamaica’s sugar estates

    Dec 25, 1831Labels: Baptist War, Jamaica

    • Baptist War
    • Samuel Sharpe

13. Slavery Abolition Act takes effect; apprenticeship begins

    Aug 1, 1834Labels: Slavery Abolition, apprenticeship

    • Abolition Act
    • Oxford