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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
An Act for the preventing & punnising of Those Who Shall Willfully Burne or fire any Canes
1672
Antigua
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 attainting several Slaves now run away from their Master's Service, and for the better Government of Slaves.
1723
Antigua
An ACT for the more effectual punishing of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders.
1729
Maryland
An Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province.
1740
South Carolina
An Act to explain and amend an Act, entituled, An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves; and for making free and rewarding a Negroe named Hector, belonging to Thomas Fuller, Esq. and paying his said Master the Value of the said Negroe.
1744
Jamaica
An Act for the more effectual punishment of negroes and other slaves, and for taking away the benefit of clergy from certain offenders, and a supplementary act to an act, entitled, * An Act to prevent the tumultuous meeting and other irregularities of
1751
Maryland
An Act for making Slaves Real Estate, and the better Government of Slaves and Free Negroes.
1767
St. Vincent
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 Act for governing Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and Indians, and for suspending several Acts therein mentioned.
1784
Bahamas
An Act for the Encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves.
1788
Dominica
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 more effectual trial and punishment of Slaves who may have been or may hereafter be concerned in the rebellion and insurrection now existing in this Island.
1796
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 explain and amend an Act, intituled, “An Act for making Slaves real estate, and for the better government of Slaves and Free Negroes."
1813
St. Vincent
An act for the subsistence, clothing, and the better regulation and government of slaves; for enlarging powers of the council of protection; for preventing the improper transfer of slaves; and for other purposes.
1816
Jamaica
An Act to repeal an act entitled “An Act for the good Order and Government of Slaves, and for repealing an act of this Island, entitled An Act for the good Order and Government of Slaves, and for keeping them under proper restraint, and for...
1823
Tobago
An Act for the more effectual Punishment of those Persons who shall attempt to commit the Crime of Arson.
1824
Bahamas
An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force relating to the Slave Population, for making more effectual provision for their maintenance and protection, and for the admissibility of their testimony in certain cases.
1825
Grenada
An Act for the further encouragement, Protection, and better Government of Slaves and for the general amelioration of their condition.
1826
Dominica
An Act to alter and amend the Slave Laws of this island.
1826
Jamaica
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