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An Act for removing Impediments to the Manumission of Slaves by Owners having only a limited interest. 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 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 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 for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition. Dominica
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 Grenada
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
Ordinance in Council for Improving the condition of the Slave Population of Mauritius. Mauritius
An Act to amend and explain an Act intituled ‘An Act for fixing the mode of trying Questions relative to the Freedom of Negroes, and for suspending certain Acts therein mentioned. Bahamas
Deed of Manumission Nevis
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. Mauritius
An Act to regulate the admission of the Evidence of Slaves in this Island. Nevis
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 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. Bahamas
Second Supplementary Ordinance to His Majesty’s Order in Council, establishing a Consolidated Slave Law. St. Lucia
An Act for removing Pecuniary Deposits on the Manumission of Slaves. Barbados
An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Slaves. Dominica
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