Barbados Slave Code
1661 slave law in English colony of Barbados / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Barbados Slave Code of 1661, officially titled as An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes, was a law passed by the Parliament of Barbados[1] to provide a legal basis for slavery in the English colony of Barbados. It is the first comprehensive Slave Act,[2] and the code's preamble, which stated that the law's purpose was to "protect them [slaves] as we do men's other goods and Chattels", established that black slaves would be treated as chattel property in the island's court.