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Year
Location
An Act for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition.
1826
Dominica
An Act to repeal several Acts and Clauses of Acts respecting Slaves, and for consolidating and bringing into one Act, the several Laws relating thereto, and for the better Order and Government of Slaves, and for giving them further Protection and Security, for altering the Mode of Trial of those charged with capital and other Offences, and for other Purposes.
1826
Barbados
“An Act to amend an Act, entitled ‘An Act to amend, consolidate, and bring into one Act, the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further Protection and Security, and for suspending several Acts and Clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other Purposes.’”
1826
Bahamas
An Act to alter and amend the Slave Laws of this island.
1826
Jamaica
Order in Council, WHEREBY several of the provisions contained in the Order of the 18th February, by which a new slave law was established for the Island of St. Lucia, are revised and amended.
1827
St. Lucia
An Act to Ameliorate the condition of Slaves and Free Persons of Colour.
1827
Bermuda
“An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled ‘An Act to repeal an Act intituled, An Act for making Slaves real estate,’ and the first clause of an Act intituled ‘An Act to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of obtaining an exact account of the number of the Coloured Free People and number of Negroes within this government and its dependencies, and to ameliorate the condition of the Slaves, and for other purposes’”
1827
St. Vincent
An Act to extend the benefits enjoyed by white persons under certain Clauses of the Consolidated Slave Act of this Island to all free coloured and free black persons.
1828
Barbados
An Act for further improving the condition of the Slave Population in the Island of St. Christopher.
1828
St. Christopher
An Act to regulate the admission of the Evidence of Slaves in this Island.
1828
Nevis
An Act to repeal the Forty-seventh Clause of an Act, intituled ‘An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases,’ and also two certain Acts, intituled ‘An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases, in so far as relates to the admission of the evidence of Slaves for and against Slaves;’ and ‘An Act to amend and explain an Act, intituled, An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases, in so far as relates to the admission of the evidence
1828
Grenada
An Act to repeal an Act commonly called the Slave Act, and to substitute a new Act in lieu thereof.
1829
Tobago
An Act to amend, consolidate and bring into one Act, the several Laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further protection and security, and for suspending several Acts and Clauses of Acts therein mentioned, and for other purposes.
1829
Bahamas
An Act to remove certain Restrictions affecting the Testimony of Slaves
1831
Barbados
An Act for declaring the Evidence of Slaves to be in future admissible in all the Criminal Courts of this Island.
1831
Antigua
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