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An Act for granting a further extension of privileges to certain Free persons of Colour in certain cases. Jamaica
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
An Act to repeal the Tax on the Manumission of Slaves. Dominica
AN ORDINANCE FOR PROMOTING THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION AND Bettering the State and Condition OF THE SLAVE POPULATION, IN HIS MAJESTY’S COLONY ON BERBICE Berbice
An Act to legalize the Marriage of Slaves in the Island of Nevis, to declare their property secured to them by Law; to render them competent witnesses under certain restrictions; to regulate proceedings at Law respecting them in Civil and Criminal cases; Nevis
An Act for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition. Dominica
An Act to remove pecuniary Impediments to the Manumission of Slaves, and to extend the Benefit of Testimony to free Persons manumitted not according to the Laws of this Island, and to repeal certain Acts and parts of Acts relating thereto. Barbados
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 Barbados
An Act for fixing the mode of trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes, and for suspending certain Acts therein men­tioned. Bahamas
“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, Bahamas
An Act to alter and amend the Slave Laws of this island. 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. Mauritius
An Act to Ameliorate the condition of Slaves and Free Persons of Colour. Bermuda
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. Barbados
An Act to enable all His Majesty’s free-born coloured Male British Subjects to sit as Jurors on all Trials and Coroner’s Inquests within these Islands. Grenada
An Act for regulating the Solemnization of Marriages among Slaves, and for declaring such Marriages valid and effectual in the Law. Nevis
An Act to enable Slaves to acquire, possess and alienate Property. Nevis
An Act to prevent the Separation of Slaves by Sale or Transfer in certain cases, without their Consent. Nevis
An Act to prevent the holding of Markets on the Sabbath-day, and appointing Thursdays and Saturdays to be public Market-days. Grenada
An Act more effectually to facilitate the Manumission of Slaves in the Island of Nevis, and to repeal all Acts and Clauses of Acts relating thereto. Nevis
An Act to repeal an Act commonly called the Slave Act, and to substitute a new Act in lieu thereof. Tobago
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
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