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Laws related to: Quakers

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An Act to Prevent the People called Quakers, from bringing Negroes to their Meeting 1676 Barbados
An Act to continue an Act to prevent the people called Quakers, from bringing Negroes to their Meetings 1678 Barbados
An Act to oblige all person to give in a List of Their Negroes and other slaves upon Oath. 1701 Nevis
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 raising several Sums of Money, and applying the same to several uses, for subsisting for One Year the Officers and Soldiers of His Majesty’s Fiftieth and Sixtieth Regiments of Foot, quartered in this Island. 1774 Jamaica
An Act for laying a Duty on all Negro Slaves that shall be imported into this Island from the Coast of Africa, who shall be above a certain Age; and for regulating the Manner of ascertaining such Age. 1797 Jamaica
An ACT for more fully ascertaining the Slave population of the Island of Barbadoes 1817 Barbados
An ACT for the Registration of the Slave Population 1817 Berbice
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