📅 14 Desèmber 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...
📅 11 Desèmber 1816
The Jamaican legislature passed a law requiring a more particular return and enrolment of enslaved people. The measure was presented as a way to guard against illegal imports after the British trade...
📅 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...
📅 28 Ougùstùs 1833
The Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent, setting a legal timetable for emancipation across most British colonies. The act did not bring immediate full freedom for most Jamaican adults: it...
📅 2 Novèmber 1664
The code required written tickets for travel, prescribed punishments for resistance, and treated enslaved people as inheritable property. The archive notes that it closely copied Barbados’s 1661...
📅 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...
📅 5 Sèptèmber 1683
The law required tickets for travel and described enslaved people as property available to satisfy debts. It explicitly said that becoming Christian did not make an enslaved person free. Those rules...
📅 22 Desèmber 1775
The assembly confirmed that wills could transfer enslaved people as property, including some wills that did not meet the English Statute of Frauds. It set a future standard for wills to be properly...
