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Title
Year
Location
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes
1661
Barbados
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negro Slaves
1664
Jamaica
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes.
1668
Virginia
An Act declaring the Duty of all Masters of Ships or small Vessels trading to this Island, and for the careful looking after their Vessels whilst they stay, and for the Prevention of Fugitives and Transportation without Tickets
1669
Antigua
An Act concerning those that remove from one Division to another without a Ticket from the Commander of the Division
1673
Antigua
An Act for the Governing of Negroes.
1688
Barbados
An Act to restrain the Insolences of Slaves and for preventing them from committing any outrages as also the better ordering such Slaves, etc.
1693
Montserrat
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves.
1696
Jamaica
An act for the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes
1702
Antigua
An Act for the more effectual punishing of Crimes committed by Slaves.
1717
Jamaica
An Act for attainting Several Negroes therein mentioned ; and for the more effectual preventing Negroes from running away from their Masters Service ; and for explaining and rendering more effectual an Act, intituled, An Act for the better Government of
1722
St. Christopher
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 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 to prevent hawking and pedling and disposing of goods clandestinely.
1735
Jamaica
An Act for the further Restriction of Slaves, by prohibiting them from planting any Indigo, Cotton, Ginger, Coffee, or Cocoa, and from keeping a public Market on Sundays, and for further restraining licentious Meetings of Negroes.
1736
Montserrat
An Act for confirming the Articles executed by Colonel Robert Bennett, and Quao the Commander of the Rebels, for paying Rewards for taking up and restoring runaway Slaves, and making Provision for four White Persons to reside at Crawford's Town, and New
1740
Jamaica
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province.
1740
South Carolina
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, to explain and amend an Act, intituled, 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
1761
Jamaica
An Act for making Slaves Real Estate, and the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes.
1767
St. Vincent
An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Governing of Negroes.’
1767
Barbados
An Act for suppressing of Runaway Slaves, and for the better Government of Slaves; and for preventing Slaves being fraudulently carried off this Island; and for enabling the Commander in Chief, or President of the Council for the Time being, to send out
1773
Dominica
An Act for governing Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and Indians, and for suspending several Acts therein mentioned.
1784
Bahamas
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
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