📅 14 December 1696
The Jamaican assembly passed an act for the "better Order and Government of Slaves." It required enslaved people to carry tickets to travel away from plantations, authorized punishment for movement...
📅 19 December 1761
A 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...
📅 9 November 1764
A 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...
