Sugar plantation economy and trade in Barbados and Jamaica (1627-1834)

1. First permanent English settlement in Barbados

   Feb 17, 1627Labels: Holetown, English settlers

   • Barbados
   • UK Relations

2. Barbados Assembly established under planter influence

   Jun 26, 1639Labels: Barbados Assembly, planters

   • House Assembly
   • Parliament Barbados

3. Barbados “Sugar Revolution” transforms the island

   Jan 1, 1640Labels: Sugar Revolution, plantations

   • UNESCO Tentative

4. England captures Jamaica from Spain

   May 19, 1655Labels: Jamaica, English conquest

   • Invasion Jamaica
   • EBSCO Starter

5. Navigation Act of 1660 restricts sugar exports

   Jan 1, 1660Labels: Navigation Act, English Parliament

   • NCpedia NavActs
   • Navigation Acts

6. Barbados passes comprehensive slave code

   Sep 24, 1661Labels: Barbados Slave, slavery law

   • UNB Laws
   • Barbados Code

7. Spain recognizes English Jamaica in Treaty of Madrid

   Jul 8, 1670Labels: Treaty of, Spain

   • Treaty Madrid
   • Britannica Madrid

8. Jamaican sugar plantations expand into an estate system

   Jan 1, 1673Labels: Jamaican estates, sugar estates

   • Jamaica English

9. Molasses Act seeks to protect British West Indian sugar

   Jan 1, 1733Labels: Molasses Act, British West

   • Britannica Molasses

10. Britain abolishes the transatlantic slave trade

    May 1, 1807Labels: Slave Trade, British Parliament

    • Slave Trade Act

11. Bussa’s Rebellion challenges Barbados’s plantation order

    Apr 14, 1816Labels: Bussa s, Barbadian militia

    • Nat Archives
    • Bussa Rebellion

12. Slavery Abolition Act ends legal slavery, starts apprenticeship

    Aug 1, 1834Labels: Slavery Abolition, apprenticeship

    • Britannica Abolition
    • Nat Archives 1833

13. Apprenticeship system begins to unravel under pressure

    Jan 1, 1838Labels: Apprenticeship system, colonial assemblies

    • Emancipation BWI
    • Nat Archives 1833

14. Apprenticeship ends, completing emancipation in 1834 scope

    Aug 1, 1838Labels: Emancipation 1838, British West

    • Nat Archives 1833
    • Emancipation BWI