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Title	Year	Location
An Act to prohibit the Inhabitants of this Island from employing, their Negroes or other Slaves, in selling or bartering.	1708	Barbados
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves.	1741	North Carolina
An ACT to repeal an act, intituled “An act to repeal several acts and clauses of acts respecting slaves, and for the better order and government of slaves, and for other purposes and also to repeal the several acts and clauses of acts, which were repealed by the act intituled as aforesaid; and for consolidating, and bringing into one act, the several laws relating to slaves, and for giving them further protection and security; for altering the mode of trial of slaves charged with capital offences; and for other purposes.	1792	Jamaica
An Act to consolidate and bring into one Act the several laws relating to Slaves, and for giving them further protection and security; for altering the mode of trial of Slaves charged with capital offences; for suspending the...	1796	Bahamas
An Act for the more effectual trial and punishment of Slaves who may have been or may hereafter be concerned in the rebellion and insurrection now existing in this Island.	1796	Grenada
An Act for the punishment of Slaves under sentence of banishment, or confinement to hard labour in chains, who shall escape or attempt to escape from their places of confinement or employment; and to make it lawful for the magistrates to condemn to hard labour in chains, for life or for a limited time, Slaves convicted under the several Acts for the trial and punishment of criminal Slaves.	1797	Grenada
An ACT for the protection, subsisting, clothing, and for the better order, regulation and government of Slaves, and for other purposes.	1809	Jamaica
An act for the subsistence, clothing, and the better regulation and government of slaves; for enlarging powers of the council of protection; for preventing the improper transfer of slaves; and for other purposes.	1816	Jamaica
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.	1824	Bahamas
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.	1825	Grenada
For establishing, under a fix penal clause, the weight of the chains and fetters, or iron rings, which the inhabitants are authorized, by the existing laws, to put upon their slaves; and also for preventing the infliction of any punishment upon a slave who, after having made a complaint against his master, shall have been returned to the latter, upon condition that such slave shall be treated without resentment.	1826	Mauritius
An Act to alter and amend the Slave Laws of this island.	1826	Jamaica
Second Supplementary Ordinance to His Majesty’s Order in Council, establishing a Consolidated Slave Law.	1830	St. Lucia
An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Slaves.	1831	Dominica