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Title
Year
Location
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes.
1668
Virginia
Abridgement of laws relating to Slaves.
1669
Virginia
An Act for Encouragement of the Royall Affrican Company in England for the Supplyeing this Island with Negroes
1675
Antigua
An Act declaring Slaves to be real Estate.
1705
Virginia
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves
1705
Virginia
An Act for laying a duty of Negroes and other Slaves imported to this Island.
1705
Barbados
A Supplemental Act to the Act intituled, An Act for laying a Duty on new Negroes and other Slaves imported this Island.
1715
Barbados
An Act for repealing part of an Act, entitled, "A Supplemental Act to an Act, entitled, An Act for laying a Duty on new Negroes, and other Slaves imported this Island.
1727
Barbados
An Act laying an Imposition on Negroes and other Slaves imported into these Islands
1728
Bermuda
An ACT for laying an additional Duty on all Negroes imported into this Island.
1774
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 regulate the Payment and Recovery of Debts, and to prohibit the Importation of Negroes, for the Time therein limited.
1788
South Carolina
An act to repeal an act entitled, ‘An act to regulate the sales of newly-imported negroes; and to prevent, as far as possible, the separation of different branches of the same family;’ and to regulate the sales of newly-imported negroes; and to
1792
Jamaica
An ACT to prohibit the importation of slaves from Africa or other places beyond sea, into this state for two years, and also to prohibit the importation or bringing in of negro slaves, mulattoes, Indians, Moors or mustizoes bound for a term of years
1792
South Carolina
An Act for establishing regulations respecting Slaves arriving in this Island, or resident therein; except such as are imported direct from the coast of Africa.
1794
Tobago
An ACT to revive and extend an Act, entitled an Act to prohibit the importation of Slaves from Africa, or other places beyond sea, into this State, for two years; and also to prohibit the importation or bringing in of Negro Slaves, Mulattoes, Indians,
1794
South Carolina
An Act to prohibit the selling, purchasing, hiring or employing of certain Foreign Slaves, except as is therein excepted; for authorizing the Provost Marshal to sell, continue and transport the same; and for other purposes therein mentioned.
1795
Bahamas
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 for a more particular return of Slaves in this Island, and the enrolment thereof.
1816
Jamaica
An Act in furtherance of the Provisions of the Abolition Laws within this Island.
1816
Jamaica
An ACT for the Registration of the Slave Population
1817
Berbice