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Year
Location
An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes
1661
Barbados
Apprehending Servants and Slaves
1661
Jamaica
Abridgement of laws relating to Run-aways.
1663
Virginia
An Act for ye punishing and ordering of Negro Slaves
1664
Jamaica
An Act for the better ordering and Governing of Negro Slaves
1664
Jamaica
Abridgement of laws relating to Negroes.
1668
Virginia
An Act for the preventing & punnising of Those Who Shall Willfully Burne or fire any Canes
1672
Antigua
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negro Slaves
1674
Jamaica
An Act against Negroes wandering, and the Concealers thereof.
1679
Montserrat
An Act for the Better Ordering of Slaves
1683
Jamaica
An Act for the Governing of Negroes.
1688
Barbados
An Act for prohibiting the selling of Rum, or other strong Liquors, to any Negro
1692
Barbados
An Act for the Encouraging the Importation of White Servants
1693
Montserrat
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 Trial of Criminal Slaves
1694
Antigua
An Act for the better Order and Government of Slaves.
1696
Jamaica
An Act to prevent Burning or Breaking of Canes
1702
Montserrat
An Act to prevent Hazzards and Inconveniences that may happen by Thatcht Houses in the Town of Plymouth and clandestine Dealings with Negroes
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 for the better Government of Negro’s, and other Slaves
1704
St. Christopher
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves
1705
Virginia
An Act to prohibit the Inhabitants of this Island from employing, their Negroes or other Slaves, in selling or bartering.
1708
Barbados
An Act for the better Government of Negroes, and other Slaves
1711
St. Christopher
An Act for the more effectual punishing of Crimes committed by Slaves.
1717
Jamaica
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