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Mar 27, 1550
Introduction of sugar cane
(day and month) Sugar cultivation introduced into Brazil from islands along the coast of Africa in 1550 by the Portuguese. Soon afterward, they introduced slave labor from Africa as well. -
Period: Mar 27, 1550 to
8 Million African Slaves traded into the Atlantic
(ignore day and month) From the approximately the year 1550 to 1800, about 8 million African exported into trade in the Atlantic. -
Brazil the leading producer of sugar
(ignore day and month) By 1600 Brazil was the number one largest producer of sugar in the Atlantic world. -
Dutch West India Company created
(ignore day and month) This Dutch private trading company was created in order for the Dutch to compete economically with Spain. -
Capture of Spainish fleet
(ignore day and month) The Dutch captured the Spanish treasure fleet in 1628, and the Dutch West India company used the fortune acquired from this victory against the Spanish to pay stockholders loyal to the company huge dividends. The rest of the money was used to finance an attack on Brazil. -
Dutch take Elmina trading station
(ignore day and month) The Dutch West India Company took the West African trading station of Elmina out of the grip of the Portuguese in 1638 during a series of conquests, gave Portugal motive to seek revenge against the Dutch. -
Portugual free from Spain
Portugal was freed from the Spanish crown in 1640, and this allowed them to retatailate against the Dutch through Brazilian reconquest within the next three decades. -
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France and England ally in a war against the Netherlands
(ignore day and month) Restictions on Dutch access to certain colonies in France and England led to a series of wars between 1652 and 1678. Because the English and French had made more alliances with natives, they wre able to overpower the Netherlands. The Dutch West India Company fell into bankruptcy shortly afterward. -
Dutch driven out of Brazil
(ignore day and month) The Portuguese by 1654 had forced the last of the Dutch planters out of Brazilian territories. -
Navigation Acts in England
(ignore day and month) Throughout the 1660s, England passed a series of Navigation Acts which confined trade withs its colonies to only ships and cargoes that were owned by England. -
Royal African Company (RAC) established
(ignore day and month) The Royal African Company created in 1672 which replaced all English trade in West Africa. The center of the company was set-up at Cape Coast Castle, which lie East of Elmina on the Gold Coast. -
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Royal African Company engaged in eight decade operation
(ignore day and month) 40% of the profits came from ivory, forest and gold products -
Sugar the primary crop of Barbados
(ignore day and month) Sugar had become the main crop of the European colonies by 1680s thanks to competition between European colonies such as the English colony of Barbados and the French colonies of Guadeloupe and Martinique, especially with Barbados moving away form tobacco production after 1640. Sugar had become the primary crop in this English colony, and as a result enslaved Africans were three times as numerous in population as European settlers in Barbados. -
Indian and European textiles vital to West African trade
(ignore day and month) The goods traded by the Royal African Company in West African during the 1680s were made up over 60% by Indian and European textiles. 30% of these were either weaponry or hardware. -
England attempts to elimnate monopolies
(ignore day and month) Without the competition from the Dutch West India Company, England attempted to open trade in Africa on the grounds that monopoly privileges on chartered companies would be revoked. -
France passes the Exclusif
(ignore day and month) In 1698 France put forth a mercatnilist legislation called the "Exclusif", which highlighted their isolationist intetions. Proceeding legislation defended manufacturing and interests of Europe against competition. High taxes were often imposed on sugar imported from the colonies, as well as goods that had to be manufactured. -
Europe surpasses Brazil in sugar
(ignore day and month) European owned colonies West Indies had passed Brazil as the world's largest producer of sugar by 1700. -
Forced slave grant, from Spain to France and England
(ignore day and month) In 1713 the English and French forced the Spanish to grant them monopoly rights on supply slaves called "asientos" to their colonies. -
Dahomey's Ascension
(ignore day and month) Kingdom of Dahomey rose during the 1720s thanks to advanced firearms supplied by the slave trade -
Oyo overthrows Dahomey
(ignore day and month) The inland kingdom of Oyo overthrew the Dahomey kingdom in 1730, and forced the Dahomey to give them an annaul tribute if they the Dahmoey wanted to keep their independece. -
Spread of cultivation of sugar
(ignore day and month) The cultivation of sugar expanded during the year 1750, and the price of land in the West Indies escalated to the point where indentured servants could no longer afford to work there and were forced into Northern American colonies. This inadvertently increased demand for slaves from Africa. -
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Tacky slave rebellion in Jamaica
(ignore day and month) unsuccessful rebellion in the Summer of 1760 led by Tacky, who had been a chief on the African Golden coast