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Title
Year
Location
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes
1661
Barbados
Abridgement of laws relating to Run-aways.
1663
Virginia
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes.
1668
Virginia
An Act against Enticeing servants from their Masters
1676
Antigua
An Act obliging the Inhabitants of this Island to keepe and maynetayne Christian Men Servants
1677
Antigua
An Act for the Encouraging the Importation of White Servants
1693
Montserrat
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves.
1696
Jamaica
An Act for the more effectual raising Parties, to pursue and destroy Rebellious and Runaway Slaves.
1702
Jamaica
An Act to prevent Burning or Breaking of Canes
1702
Montserrat
An Act for the better Government of Slaves and free Negroes
1702
Antigua
An act for the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes
1702
Antigua
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves
1705
Virginia
An Act, to amend an Act therein mentioned, concerning Servants and Slaves.
1715
North Carolina
An Act Encouraging the importation of White Servants.
1716
Jamaica
An ACT for the better Securing this Province from Negro Insurrections, and for Encouraging of poor People by employing them in Plantations.
1726
South Carolina
An act to prevent the abuses committed by entertaining, concealing, or carrying off, any of his majesty’s soldiers, any white men or women servants, or slaves, belonging to any of the inhabitants of this island, without tickets; and for the better
1736
Jamaica
An additional supplementary act to the act, entitled, *An act relating to servants and slaves.
1748
Maryland
An ACT to prevent masters of ships and vessels from clandestinely carrying servants and slaves, or persons indebted, out of this province.
1753
Maryland
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 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