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Year
Location
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes
1661
Barbados
An Act for the Governing of Negroes.
1688
Barbados
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves.
1696
Jamaica
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 Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province.
1740
South Carolina
An Act to remedy the Evils arising from irregular Assemblies of Slaves, and to prevent their possessing Arms and Ammunition and going from Place to Place without Tickets, and for preventing the Practice of Obeah, and to restrain Overseers from leaving the
1760
Jamaica
An Act for making Slaves Real Estate, and the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes.
1767
St. Vincent
An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Governing of Negroes.’
1767
Barbados
An Act for suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves; and for preventing Slaves being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the Commander in Chief, or President of the Council for the Time being, to send out
1773
Dominica
An Act to alter and amend the thirty-second and thirty-third Clauses of an Act of this Island, intituled, An Act for attainting several Slaves now run-away from their Masters’ Service, and for the better Government of Slaves; and for regulating the Duty
1780
Antigua
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 to repeal an act, intituled “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
1792
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 protection, subsisting, clothing, and for the better order, regulation and government of Slaves, and for other purposes.
1809
Jamaica
An ACT for providing Curates for the several Parishes of this Island, and for promoting Religious Instruction amongst the Slaves
1816
Jamaica
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 for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition.
1826
Dominica
An Act for the Encouragement of Baptisms and Marriages amongst the Slaves, and for the due Observance of the Lord’s Day, commonly called Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday.
1826
Barbados
An Act to alter and amend the Slave Laws of this island.
1826
Jamaica
Order in Council, WHEREBY several of the provisions contained in the Order of the 18th February, by which a new slave law was established for the Island of St. Lucia, are revised and amended.
1827
St. Lucia
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