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Year
Location
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes.
1668
Virginia
An Act to oblige all person to give in a List of Their Negroes and other slaves upon Oath.
1701
Nevis
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 and additional Tax on all free Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and such Persons, Male and Female, as now are, or hereafter shall be, intermarried with any such Persons, resident in this Government.
1723
North Carolina
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 for renewing and making some Alterations to the Act, intituled, An Act for the further and better regulating Negroes and other Slaves, and for the more effectual and speedy Way of prosecuting them.
1733
Bermuda
An Act to repeal Part of an Act, entituled, An Act for the more effectual Punishment of Crimes committed by Slaves; and to oblige the several Parishes to pay for all Negroes executed in each respective Parish.
1740
Jamaica
An Act for making Slaves Real Estate, and the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes.
1767
St. Vincent
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 in Aid of an Act, intituled, “An Act for the suppressing of Runaways, for the better Government of Slaves, &c.” commonly called The Slave Act, and to alter and to amend the same; and further to provide a Fund for defraying the Expence necessary
1782
Dominica
An additional act to amend the several acts for regulating the town of Wilmington, and to regulate and restrain the conduct of slaves and others in the said town, and in the towns of Washington, Edenton and Fayetteville.
1785
North Carolina
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 for raising a tax of fifteen shillings per poll on all Negro and other Slaves, and six pounds per centum on the yearly value of all houses, warehouses, stores, shops, and tenements within the several towns of this Island, to be applied for and
1789
St. Christopher
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 prohibit the purchasing, hiring, or employing, certain foreign slaves, except as therein mentioned.
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 ease and relief of jurors and suitors of the supreme and certain other courts within this island; and for other purposes.
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 to prevent any intercourse and communication between the slaves of this island, and foreign slaves of a certain description and for other purposes.
1799
Jamaica
An act for altering the manner of trying titles to slaves; and for better regulating trials of replevins, in cases of distress and levy of slaves.
1801
Jamaica
An ACT to authorize and empower the Commander in Chief for the time being to cause parties to be raised and fitted out for suppressing any rebellion, and for going in pursuit of and reducing runaway Slaves.
1807
Jamaica
An Act to regulate the manumitting of Slaves in this Island; to impose a tax upon manumissions, and to impose a tax upon all free and manumitted persons coming to this Island.
1810
Dominica
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