Transatlantic Sugar Trade and Plantation System (16th–19th centuries)

1. Madeira pioneers Atlantic sugar plantation model

   Jan 1, 1450Labels: Madeira, Portuguese settlers, Plantation complex

   • Britannica
   • Madeira History

2. Treaty of Tordesillas divides Iberian expansion zones

   Jun 7, 1494Labels: Treaty of, Spain, Portugal

   • Britannica
   • NatGeo

3. São Tomé becomes an early slave-based sugar hub

   Jan 1, 1515Labels: S o, Portuguese colonization, Slave labor

   • Britannica
   • WHE

4. Large-scale sugar manufacturing begins in Brazil

   Jan 1, 1532Labels: Brazil, engenhos, Portuguese settlement

   • Engenho
   • Britannica

5. Barbados “Sugar Revolution” transforms English Caribbean

   Jan 1, 1640Labels: Barbados, English Caribbean, Sugar Revolution

   • TIME
   • Britannica

6. Barbados codifies hereditary racial slavery in law

   Jan 1, 1661Labels: Barbados Slave, Barbados, Colonial law

   • UNB Laws
   • TIME

7. Treaty of Breda links empire rivalry to sugar territories

   Jul 31, 1667Labels: Treaty of, England, Dutch Republic

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

8. Britain’s Molasses Act protects West Indian sugar interests

   Jan 1, 1733Labels: Molasses Act, British Parliament, North American

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

9. Slave uprising in Saint-Domingue sparks Haitian Revolution

   Aug 21, 1791Labels: Saint-Domingue, Slave uprising, Haitian Revolution

   • 1791 Revolt
   • Haiti Rev

10. France abolishes slavery in its colonies (First abolition)

    Feb 4, 1794Labels: French National, France, Abolition decree

    • 1794 Law
    • Britannica

11. Haiti declares independence, collapsing a major sugar colony

    Jan 1, 1804Labels: Haiti, Independence, Former Saint-Domingue

    • HISTORY
    • Haiti Decl

12. Britain ends its transatlantic slave trade by law

    Mar 25, 1807Labels: Slave Trade, United Kingdom, Abolition law

    • Slave Trade Act
    • Britannica

13. Britain abolishes slavery in most of its empire

    Aug 1, 1834Labels: Slavery Abolition, British Empire, Emancipation

    • Britannica

14. France abolishes slavery again (Second abolition)

    Apr 27, 1848Labels: France, Second abolition, 1848 decree

    • 1848 Decree
    • CIRESC

15. Brazil ends slavery, closing the Atlantic plantation era

    May 13, 1888Labels: Brazil, Lei urea, Abolition 1888

    • Lei urea
    • Britannica