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The Assembly frees Jack for helping suppress the recent rebellion
📅 19 December 1761A Jamaican act manumitted Jack, an enslaved man owned by planter Peter Thomas, citing his role in revealing conspiracies and suppressing the recent uprising. The Assembly also ordered an annual...
The assembly frees Jack Pearson after his role in suppressing the 1760 revolt
📅 1 December 1763A Jamaican act freed Jack Pearson, who had been enslaved by the estate of William Ricketts. The statute said Pearson supplied information about a 1760 rebellion in Westmoreland and helped pursue...
The assembly frees Cato after his role in the 1760 uprising
📅 9 November 1764A Jamaican statute freed Cato, who had informed colonial officials about the 1760 uprising and helped pursue rebels. The assembly paid his enslaver £70 as compensation. The act records a coerced...
The assembly frees York and Cuffee after the 1765 Whitehall uprising
📅 21 December 1767A statute freed York and Cuffee, whose actions colonial lawmakers said helped suppress the 1765 uprising in St Mary. York was credited with saving his enslaver’s widow; Cuffee with disclosing a...
The assembly frees Will for helping investigate a murder
📅 23 December 1772A Jamaican statute freed Will, who had been enslaved by the estate of William Jones. It said Will helped investigate the disappearance and murder of overseer Andrew Ross and directed an annual payment...
Jamaica imposes an additional duty on enslaved people imported to the island
📅 12 February 1774The assembly passed a law adding a 40-shilling duty for each enslaved African or Black person imported to Jamaica. The measure extended a revenue system that treated forced migration as taxable...
A Jamaican law varies import duties and inspection by enslaved people’s reported age
📅 24 November 1774A statute funding British regiments also regulated the importation of enslaved people. It required shipmasters to report cargoes, imposed duties, and created port inspections. It set different rates...