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Testimony of Free People of Colour
Laws related to: Testimony of free people of colour
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Title
Year
Location
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves.
1741
North Carolina
An Act for making free Negroes, Indians, and Mulattoes Evidence in all Causes against one another, in all the Courts of this Island.
1748
Jamaica
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act to prevent the further sudden increase of Free Negroes and Mulattoes;” and also to amend an Act, intituled, “An Act for the better government of Slaves, and for the more speedy and effectual suppression of
1792
Grenada
An ACT for the protection, subsisting, clothing, and for the better order, regulation and government of Slaves, and for other purposes.
1809
Jamaica
An ACT to repeal several Acts and the clause of an Act of this Island, respecting persons of Free condition, and for granting to such persons certain privileges
1813
Jamaica
An Act allowing the Testimony of Free Negroes and Free People of Colour to be taken in all Cases.
1817
Barbados
AN ACT to extend certain Privileges of Persons of Free Condition within these Islands.
1822
Bahamas
An Act for granting a further extension of privileges to certain Free persons of Colour in certain cases.
1823
Jamaica
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.
1826
Barbados