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Order in Council establishes Trinidad’s compulsory slave registry

đź“… 26 March 1812

On 26 March 1812, an Order in Council established compulsory registration of enslaved people in Trinidad, the first such registry in the British West Indies. Plantation owners had to report enslaved...