đź“… 25 March 1559
On 25 March 1559, a royal license authorized mill owners in Brazil to import up to 120 enslaved Africans per mill, subject to duties. This policy made the Crown an active regulator and beneficiary...
đź“… 14 October 1751
On 14 October 1751, an alvará prohibited taking enslaved Africans to lands outside Portuguese dominion and regulated dispatches to Colônia do Sacramento and other frontier places. The measure...
đź“… 19 September 1761
On 19 September 1761, an alvará prohibited transporting enslaved Black people from ports in the Americas, Africa, and Asia to mainland Portugal and declared those who arrived there free after the...
đź“… 14 October 1850
Decree no. 708, dated 14 October 1850, established procedures connected to the suppression of the slave trade, including the treatment of vessels suspected of illegal importation. The decree...
đź“… 14 November 1850
Decree no. 731 of 14 November 1850 provided additional implementation rules for Law no. 581. Its place in the rapid sequence of regulations shows the imperial government building administrative...
đź“… 13 May 1835
Provincial Law no. 9 authorized expulsion of African freedpeople considered dangerous, restricted residence and property rights, imposed fees, and required a register recording name, African nation,...
đź“… 25 March 1807
The British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, prohibiting British subjects from participating in the transatlantic slave trade. The measure restricted the forced transport of Africans into...
đź“… 1 January 1808
The British trade ban took effect, ending legal British participation in the transatlantic slave trade. In Jamaica, this did not end slavery or plantation labor. Enslaved people continued to be...
đź“… 15 November 1661
A Jamaican act made enslaved Africans and servants liable to punishment for leaving a plantation without written permission. It treated ordinary movement as an offense against an owner’s authority and...
đź“… 2 November 1662
The act described enslaved Africans as necessary to plantations and authorized a justice and local inquest to sentence an enslaved person accused of a capital offense. It also prohibited inhabitants...
đź“… 24 November 1774
A 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...
đź“… 24 November 1783
On 24 November 1783, Spain issued the Cedula of Population, opening Trinidad to immigration by Roman Catholic settlers from Spain’s allied nations, particularly French Caribbean colonies. Land grants,...
đź“… 25 March 1807
On 25 March 1807, the British Parliament passed the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The act prohibited British participation in the transatlantic slave trade, but it did not abolish...
đź“… 26 September 1603
A prosecutor of the Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo ordered the seizure of property belonging to former governors Pedro Fajardo and Alonso Suárez del Castillo. A related Caracas record involved a...
