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Abridgement of laws relating to Run-aways. 1663 Virginia
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes. 1668 Virginia
Abridgement of laws relating to Slaves. 1669 Virginia
An Act for the speedy and easy Prosecution of Slaves committing Capital Crimes. 1692 Virginia
An ACT inhibiting the Trading with Servants and Slaves. 1695 South Carolina
An Act declaring Slaves to be real Estate. 1705 Virginia
An Act to explain and amend the Act for declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian Slaves, within this Dominion, to be real Estate; and Part of one other Act, intituled An Act for the Distribution of Intestates Estates, declaring Widows Rights to their deceased Husbands Estates, and for Securing Orphans Estates. 1705 Virginia
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves 1705 Virginia
An Act declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian Slave this Dominion, to be real Estate. 1705 Virginia
An ACT for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves. 1712 South Carolina
(copy) An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves. 1712 South Carolina
An Act, to amend an Act therein mentioned, concerning Servants and Slaves. 1715 North Carolina
An Act, for and additional Tax on all free Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and such Persons, Male and Female, as now are, or hereafter shall be, intermarried with any such Persons, resident in this Government. 1723 North Carolina
An ACT for the better Securing this Province from Negro Insurrections, and for Encouraging of poor People by employing them in Plantations. 1726 South Carolina
An ACT for the more effectual punishing of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders. 1729 Maryland
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province. 1740 South Carolina
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves. 1741 North Carolina
An additional supplementary act to the act, entitled, *An act relating to servants and slaves. 1748 Maryland
An Act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary act to an act, entitled, * An Act to prevent the tumultuous meeting and other irregularities of negroes and other slaves, and directing the manner of trying slaves. 1751 Maryland
An additional and explanatory Act to an Act of the General Assembly of this Province, entitled, an Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province. And for continuing such Part of the said Act as is not altered or amended by this present Act, for the Term therein mentioned. 1751 South Carolina
An additional Act, to an Act, concerning Servants and Slaves. 1753 North Carolina
A Supplementary and explanatory act to an act, entitled, *An act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary act to an act, †entitled, An act to prevent the tumultuous meetings and other irregularities of negroes and other slaves. 1753 Maryland
An ACT to prevent masters of ships and vessels from clandestinely carrying servants and slaves, or persons indebted, out of this province. 1753 Maryland
An Act to prevent the inveigling, stealing and carrying away Negroes and other Slaves in this Province: And to prevent the carrying away of Schooners or Pettiauguas. And also, for repealing so much of an Act, intitled, an Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province, as relates to the time within which Offenders, that are apprehended, shall be tried: And giving the Justices and Freeholders a Power to postpone the Trial of such Offenders. 1754 South Carolina
An additional Act to and Act, intituled, An Act concerning Servants and Slaves 1758 North Carolina
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