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Title
Year
Location
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes.
1668
Virginia
An Act for the Encouragement of voluntary Parties to suppress rebellious and runaway Negroes.
1718
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 better protection, and for promoting the natural increase and population of Slaves within the Island of Grenada, and such of the Grenadines as are annexed to the government thereof; for compelling an adequate provision for, and care of
1797
Grenada
An Act more effectually to provide for the support, and to extend certain regulations for the protection of Slaves, to promote and encourage their increase, and generally to meliorate their condition.
1798
St. Christopher
An ACT to repeal several Acts therein mentioned respecting Slaves, to declare Slaves assets for payment of debts and legacies, and in what manner they shall descend and be held as property, and be sold and conveyed in certain cases.
1807
Jamaica
An Act to regulate the manumitting of Slaves in this Island; to impose a tax upon manumissions, and to impose a tax upon all free and manumitted persons coming to this Island.
1810
Dominica
An ACT for a more particular return of Slaves in this Island, and the enrolment thereof.
1816
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
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 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
Ordinance in Council for Improving the condition of the Slave Population of Mauritius.
1827
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 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
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