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Title
Year
Location
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes
1661
Barbados
An Act declaring the Negro Slaves of this Island to be Real Estate.
1668
Barbados
A Declarative ACT upon the Act making Negroes Real Estate.
1672
Barbados
An Act to Prevent the People called Quakers, from bringing Negroes to their Meeting
1676
Barbados
A Supplemental Act to a former act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes
1676
Barbados
An Act to continue an Act to prevent the people called Quakers, from bringing Negroes to their Meetings
1678
Barbados
An Act for the Governing of Negroes.
1688
Barbados
An Additional Act to an Act, entitled "An Act for the governing of Negroes"
1692
Barbados
An Act for the encouragement of all Negroes and Slaves, that shall discover any conspiracy.
1692
Barbados
An Act for prohibiting the selling of Rum, or other strong Liquors, to any Negro
1692
Barbados
An Act for laying a duty of Negroes and other Slaves imported to this Island.
1705
Barbados
An Act to repeal a Clause in an Act, intitled, " An Act for the governing of Negroes"
1706
Barbados
An Act for the encouragement of such Negroes and other Slaves, that shall behave themselves courageously against the Enemy in time of invasion.
1707
Barbados
An Act to prohibit the Inhabitants of this Island from employing, their Negroes or other Slaves, in selling or bartering.
1708
Barbados
An Act to secure the peaceable possession of Negroes and other Slaves, to the inhabitants of this Island; and to prevent and punish the clandestine and illegal detinue of them
1709
Barbados
A Supplemental Act to the Act intituled, An Act for laying a Duty on new Negroes and other Slaves imported this Island.
1715
Barbados
An Act for repealing part of an Act, entitled, "A Supplemental Act to an Act, entitled, An Act for laying a Duty on new Negroes, and other Slaves imported this Island.
1727
Barbados
An Act for the punishment of Run-away Slaves, and of Slaves who shall willfully entertain, harbour and conceal any Run-away Slaves
1731
Barbados
An Act for the better governing of Negroes; and the more effectual preventing the inhabitants of this island, from employing their Negroes or other Slaves, in selling or bartering.
1733
Barbados
An Act for amending an Act of this Island, entitled an Act for the Governing of Negroes, and for providing a proper Maintenance and Support for such Negroes, Indians, or Mulattoes as shall be hereafter manumitted or set free, and also for preventing certain Inconveniences from them arising to the Inhabitants of this Island.
1739
Barbados
An Act for rending more effectual, and for supplying many defects in the several Laws of this Island, for the governing of Negroes
1749
Barbados
An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Governing of Negroes.’
1767
Barbados
An Act to amend an Act of this Island, entitled ‘An Act for amending an Act of this Island, entitled an Act for the governing of Negroes, and for providing a proper Maintenance and Support for such Negroes, Indians, or Mulattoes, as hereafter shall be manumitted or set free; as also for preventing certain Inconveniences from them arising to the Inhabitants of this Island.
1783
Barbados
An Act to prevent distempered, maimed, and worn-out Negroes from infesting the Towns, Streets, and Highways of this Island.
1785
Barbados
An Act for the Punishment of such Slaves as shall be found practising Obeah
1806
Barbados
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