📅 1 April 1832
The new manumission rules took effect on 1 April 1832. Freedom was processed through enslavers and the colonial state, not recognized as a right held by enslaved people. The rules formalized a pathway...
📅 1 Yüli 1863
On 1 July 1863, the Dutch law emancipated enslaved people in Suriname. The National Archives estimates roughly 45,000 people were freed across the Dutch Caribbean that day. In Suriname, adults aged...
📅 15 Sèptèmber 1869
Decree no. 1,695 of 15 September 1869 prohibited selling enslaved people at public auction with a public cry and exhibition. The rule curtailed one degrading public practice but did not ban private...
📅 12 Mei 1871
On 12 May 1871, the government’s proposal on the “servile element” entered the Senate’s legislative process. The bill proposed that children born to enslaved women after enactment be declared free,...
📅 28 Sèptèmber 1871
Law no. 2,040, enacted on 28 September 1871, declared children born to enslaved women after that date legally free. Yet the law left children under the authority of their mother’s enslaver, who...
📅 1 Desèmber 1871
Decree no. 4,835 of 1 December 1871 regulated a special register of enslaved people and children legally classified as freeborn under the September law. Registration could help administer a gradual...
📅 23 Yanüari 1881
Provincial Law no. 1 required registration of enslaved people entering São Paulo and set a two-contos fee, with exceptions including some agricultural owners and up to three domestic servants. The law...
📅 28 Yüni 1817
The registry required enslavers to submit lists of the people they claimed as property. Jamaica's returns recorded names, ages, sex, colour, African or Creole status and, in some cases, mothers' names...
📅 1 Ougùstùs 1834
The Act took effect in Jamaica. Children under six and people born after the appointed date were free, but most adults were reclassified as apprentices and required to keep working under former...
📅 1 Mei 1674
This statute renewed movement restrictions and punitive measures. It ordered enslavers to report people who had fled, penalized those who helped enslaved people escape, and offered a reward when an...
📅 24 Desèmber 1774
A Jamaican act restricted who could legally manumit an enslaved person. Except for the island’s legislature, an owner had to provide security for an annual £5 payment to the freed person for life...
📅 12 Yüli 1819
On 12 July 1819, Parliament created a central Registry of Colonial Slaves in Britain to receive copies of registers sent from the colonies and to regulate the removal of enslaved people between...
📅 28 Ougùstùs 1833
On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent. It legally set abolition in motion across British colonies, including Trinidad, but did not give most adults immediate freedom:...
📅 21 Ougùstùs 1793
A proclamation issued by civil commissioner Sonthonax on 21 August 1793 addressed marriage between a free man and an enslaved woman and provided for the Republic to compensate the enslaver. The...
📅 7 Yüni 1796
Clause VII required a court and jury to value a person sentenced to death, banishment, or chain labor at up to £100 according to trade or occupation, and authorized public payment of that amount to...
📅 8 Ougùstùs 1862
The abolition law was enacted for Curaçao and Dependencies, with effect from 1 July 1863. It also provided compensation to enslavers, treating human beings as property for state payment purposes....
📅 23 Mei 1836
A law approved on 23 May 1836 expanded owners’ authority to punish enslaved people and raised the permitted maximum from 29 to 100 lashes. Fundación Empresas Polar describes it as a regression...
