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Title	Location	Date	Added Sort ascending	Changed
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negro Slaves	Jamaica	1664-02-01	10/25/2024 - 17:33	10/25/2024 - 17:44
Apprehending Servants and Slaves	Jamaica	1661-11-15	09/24/2024 - 16:52	09/24/2024 - 16:54
An Act for the preventing & punnising of Those Who Shall Willfully Burne or fire any Canes	Antigua	1672-08-14	03/19/2024 - 13:25	04/02/2024 - 17:02
An Act for ye punishing and ordering of Negro Slaves	Jamaica	1664-01-01	03/19/2024 - 00:43	04/02/2024 - 17:01
A Supplemental Act to a former act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes	Barbados	1676-04-21	01/28/2024 - 19:53	01/28/2024 - 19:53
An Act for making free a negro man slave named Cato, belonging to Arthur Forrest, esquire. 9th November, 1764	Jamaica	1764-11-09	01/28/2024 - 00:47	04/02/2024 - 16:59
An Act to prevent Hazzards and Inconveniences that may happen by Thatcht Houses in the Town of Plymouth and clandestine Dealings with Negroes	Montserrat	1702-06-13	10/20/2023 - 17:00	04/02/2024 - 17:05
An Act to prevent Burning or Breaking of Canes	Montserrat	1702-06-13	10/20/2023 - 16:51	04/02/2024 - 17:05
An Act to restrain the Insolences of Slaves and for preventing them from committing any outrages as also the better ordering such Slaves, etc.	Montserrat	1693-06-16	10/20/2023 - 16:43	04/02/2024 - 17:05
An Act for the Encouraging the Importation of White Servants	Montserrat	1693-01-16	10/20/2023 - 16:26	04/02/2024 - 17:05
An Act for the making Restitution for Cattle Stolen by Negroes and Licenses for Tapp Houses in Town and Country	Montserrat	1680-10-12	10/20/2023 - 14:41	05/14/2024 - 15:26
An Act for terminating the Apprenticeship of the Praedial Labourers within this Island, on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.	Barbados	1838-01-01	09/06/2023 - 19:27	04/02/2024 - 17:06
An Act for the Abolition of the present Court of King’s Bench and Grand Sessions; to substitute a Court of King’s Bench in lieu thereof; and to extend to Slaves the benefit of Trial therein, in cases of a higher nature than Misdemeanors.	Tobago	1829-08-12	07/16/2023 - 23:01	10/16/2024 - 22:52
An Act to repeal an Act commonly called the Slave Act, and to substitute a new Act in lieu thereof.	Tobago	1829-08-11	07/16/2023 - 22:32	10/16/2024 - 22:31
An Act to repeal an act entitled “An Act for the good Order and Government of Slaves, and for repealing an act of this Island, entitled An Act for the good Order and Government of Slaves, and for keeping them under proper restraint, and for...	Tobago	1823-08-01	07/16/2023 - 22:09	10/16/2024 - 20:50
An Act to remove doubts respecting the Repeal of certain Acts relating to the payment of one hundred pounds upon the manumission of Slaves, and for legalizing all such deeds of Manumission as have been executed heretofore, without such payment being made	Grenada	1826-03-11	07/13/2023 - 21:19	01/29/2024 - 16:40
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.	Grenada	1825-04-26	07/13/2023 - 20:55	10/16/2024 - 21:51
An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Slaves.	Dominica	1831-06-28	07/10/2023 - 10:39	10/10/2024 - 00:08
An Act for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition.	Dominica	1826-01-26	07/10/2023 - 10:27	01/29/2024 - 16:40
An Act to repeal the Tax on the Manumission of Slaves.	Dominica	1825-11-09	07/09/2023 - 23:04	10/16/2024 - 21:53
Proclamation	Berbice	1830-04-27	07/08/2023 - 22:42	10/16/2024 - 20:36
AN Act to re-enact and amend certain Clauses of an Ordinance for promoting the religious instruction, and bettering the State and Condition of the Slave Population in His Majesty’s Colony of Berbice	Berbice	1830-04-27	07/08/2023 - 22:03	10/10/2024 - 00:26
An Act to remove certain Restrictions affecting the Testimony of Slaves	Barbados	1831-06-01	07/03/2023 - 18:26	10/10/2024 - 00:05
A Proclamation	Barbados	1823-06-10	07/03/2023 - 18:20	10/16/2024 - 20:48
An Act for removing Pecuniary Deposits on the Manumission of Slaves.	Barbados	1831-06-07	07/03/2023 - 18:17	10/10/2024 - 00:03