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Year
Location
An ACT for the Registration of the Slave Population
1817
Berbice
A PROCLAMATION issued by Lord Charles Henry Somerset, for religious Instruction and treatment of Slaves.
1823
Cape of Good Hope
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
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
1826
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
1826
Mauritius
“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,
1826
Bahamas
An Act to alter and amend the Slave Laws of this island.
1826
Jamaica
For amending, by certain modifications, the laws and regulations relative to emancipations at the island of Mauritius and its Dependencies; and for establishing, by a fixed regulation, and in one and the same ordinance, all that regards such emancipation.
1827
Mauritius
An Act to Ameliorate the condition of Slaves and Free Persons of Colour.
1827
Bermuda
Ordinance of His Excellency the Governor in Council. FOR amending the dispositions of the article 20th of the letters patent of the month of December 1723, and the 15th article of the Ordinance des Administrateurs généraux of the islands of France and
1828
Mauritius
For repealing all laws, regulations and ordinances in force relative to the Emancipation of Slaves at the Mauritius, and for embodying into a single law every formality required to effect such emancipations for the future.
1828
Mauritius
An Act for further improving the condition of the Slave Population in the Island of St. Christopher.
1828
St. Christopher
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
Proclamation
1830
Berbice
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
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