A Declarative ACT upon the Act making Negroes Real Estate.

Whereas by an Act of this Island, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand six hundred sixty eight, it is enacted and ordained, That Negroes shall be deemed Real Estate and not Chattels; Be it declared by his Excellency, Council and Representatives of this island now assembled, and it is hereby declared that by the true meaning of that Act, Negroes may be sued for and recovered by Action personal, as they usually were before the making of the said Act: And also, that by the true meaning of the Act aforesaid, Negroes continue Chattels for the payment of Debts. And be it further enacted, and it is the true intent and meaning of this Act, that Negroes shall be taken and deemed Real Estate, to all other intents and purposes whatsoever, except what before excepted. January 1672 

[Copy in in Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718. John Baskett (1732), p.109]