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Year
Location
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 for the Governing of Negroes.
1688
Barbados
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves.
1696
Jamaica
An Act to oblige all person to give in a List of Their Negroes and other slaves upon Oath.
1701
Nevis
An Act to repeal a certain Act against the Jews.
1701
Nevis
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves
1705
Virginia
An Act to repeal a Clause in an Act, intitled, " An Act for the governing of Negroes"
1706
Barbados
An ACT for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves.
1712
South Carolina
(copy) An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes and Slaves.
1712
South Carolina
An Act for the better governing of Negroes; and the more effectual preventing the inhabitants of this island, from employing their Negroes or other Slaves, in selling or bartering.
1733
Barbados
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves.
1741
North 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 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 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 better establishment of the clergy of this island; to oblige the justices and vestries to build a church, and a parsonage house, in their respective parishes; and for establishing a fund, or provision, for the support and maintenance of the
1797
Jamaica
An Act for the better protection, and for promoting the natural increase and population of Slaves within the Island of Grenada, and such of the Grenadines as are annexed to the government thereof; for compelling an adequate provision for, and care of
1797
Grenada
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 more effectually to provide for the support, and to extend certain regulations for the protection of Slaves, to promote and encourage their increase, and generally to meliorate their condition.
1798
St. Christopher
An act to prevent preaching by persons not duly qualified by law.
1802
Jamaica
An Act to oblige proprietors and possessors of Slaves, in their own right, or right of others, managers, and conductors of estates, to give in returns of runaways and Obeah men.
1803
St. Vincent
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