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Year
Location
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes
1661
Barbados
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negro Slaves
1664
Jamaica
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes.
1668
Virginia
An act for the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes
1702
Antigua
An Act for the better Government of Negroes, and other Slaves
1711
St. Christopher
An Act for attainting Several Negroes therein mentioned ; and for the more effectual preventing Negroes from running away from their Masters Service ; and for explaining and rendering more effectual an Act, intituled, An Act for the better Government of
1722
St. Christopher
An Act for attainting several Slaves now run away from their Master's Service, and for the better Government of Slaves.
1723
Antigua
An Additional Clause to the Act intituled, An Act for the further and better regulating Negroes and Slaves, and for the more effectual and speedy Way of prosecuting them (1731) in Criminal Causes
1731
Bermuda
An Act for confirming the Articles executed by Colonel John Guthrie, Lieutenant Francis Sadler, and Cudjoe the Commander of the Rebels; for paying Rewards for taking up and restoring runaway Slaves, and making Provision for four white Persons, residing,
1739
Jamaica
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province.
1740
South Carolina
An Act to explain and amend an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for making free and rewarding a Negroe named Hector, belonging to Thomas Fuller, Esq. and paying his said Master the Value of the said Negroe.
1744
Jamaica
An Act for rending more effectual, and for supplying many defects in the several Laws of this Island, for the governing of Negroes
1749
Barbados
An Act to make free several negro and mulatto slaves, as a reward for their faithful services in the late rebellion.
1760
Jamaica
An Act for making Slaves Real Estate, and the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes.
1767
St. Vincent
An Act for making free and rewarding two negro men slaves, the one named York, belonging to the estate of Ballard Beckford, deceased; and the other named Cuffee, belonging to James Charles Sholto Douglas, Esquire, and for paying to their owners their
1767
Jamaica
An act for making free and rewarding a negro woman slave named Attea, the property of the heirs of George Williams, esquire, deceased, and for paying her value.
1774
Jamaica
An Act for governing Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and Indians, and for suspending several Acts therein mentioned.
1784
Bahamas
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.
1787
Jamaica
An Act to repeal an Act, intitled, “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
1788
Jamaica
An Act for the Encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves.
1788
Dominica
An Act for the more effectual trial and punishment of criminal Slaves; and to authorize His Majesty’s justices of the peace to appoint constables in cases of emergency.
1789
Grenada
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 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...
1823
Tobago
An Act for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition.
1826
Dominica
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.
1828
Barbados
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