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Transatlantic slave trade and plantation labor across the Atlantic world (1500–1867)

Transatlantic slave trade and plantation labor across the Atlantic world (1500–1867)

  1. Treaty of Tordesillas divides Iberian expansion

    Labels: Treaty of, Spain, Portugal

  2. Barbados “Sugar Revolution” expands plantation slavery

    Labels: Barbados, Sugar plantations, Plantation elite

  3. Royal African Company charter strengthens English slaving

    Labels: Royal African, England, Chartered company

  4. French Code Noir regulates slavery in colonies

    Labels: Code Noir, Louis XIV, French colonies

  5. Treaty of Utrecht grants Britain the asiento

    Labels: Treaty of, Asiento, South Sea

  6. Stono Rebellion sparks harsher slave controls

    Labels: Stono Rebellion, South Carolina, Enslaved rebels

  7. French Convention abolishes slavery in colonies

    Labels: French Convention, Abolition 1794, Saint-Domingue

  8. Napoleon reinstates slavery in French colonies

    Labels: Napoleon, Law of, French colonies

  9. Haitian Revolution creates an independent Haiti

    Labels: Haitian Revolution, Saint-Domingue, Independent Haiti

  10. Britain bans the transatlantic slave trade

    Labels: Britain, Slave Trade, UK Parliament

  11. Britain creates the West Africa Squadron

    Labels: West Africa, Royal Navy, Naval patrols

  12. United States ends legal slave imports

    Labels: United States, Act Prohibiting, Legal ban

  13. Spain agrees to abolish the slave trade

    Labels: Spain, Abolition treaty, Spanish colonies

  14. Britain passes the Slavery Abolition Act

    Labels: Slavery Abolition, Britain, Compensation scheme

  15. Webster–Ashburton Treaty expands anti-trade cooperation

    Labels: Webster Ashburton, United States, Great Britain

  16. Aberdeen Act targets Brazil’s slave trade

    Labels: Aberdeen Act, Britain, Brazil

  17. Brazil’s Queirós Law bans the transatlantic trade

    Labels: Queir s, Brazil, Eus bio

  18. West Africa Squadron ends independent command

    Labels: West Africa, Royal Navy, Disbandment 1867