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The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas.
Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people. Slave codes left a great deal unsaid, with much of the actual practice of slavery being a matter of traditions rather than formal law.
The primary colonial powers all had slightly different slave codes. French colonies, after 1685, had the Code Noir specifically for this purpose.[1] The Spanish had some laws regarding slavery in Las Siete Partidas, a far older law that was not designed for the slave societies of the Americas.[2] English colonies largely had their own local slave codes, mostly based on the codes of either the colonies of Barbados or Virginia.[3]
In addition to these national and state- or colony-level slave codes, there were city ordinances and other local restrictions regarding enslaved people.
^Ingersoll, Thomas N. (1995). "Slave Codes and Judicial Practice in New Orleans, 1718-1807". Law and History Review. 13 (1): 26–27. doi:10.2307/743955. JSTOR 743955. S2CID 144941094.
^Igersoll 1995, pp. 24-25
^Rugemer, Edward B. (2013). "The Development of Mastery and Race in the Comprehensive Slave Codes of the Greater Caribbean during the Seventeenth Century". The William and Mary Quarterly. 70 (3): 429–458. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.70.3.0429. JSTOR 10.5309/willmaryquar.70.3.0429. S2CID 151934533.
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write a comprehensive slavecode, its code was especially influential." The Barbados SlaveCode served as the basis for the slavecodes adopted in several...
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slave trade trafficked people across the Black Sea from Europe and Caucasus to slavery in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Black Sea slave trade...
S2CID 165510200. Wilson, Black Codes (1965), p. 15. Taylor loc 491. Taylor loc 604 Taylor loc 598 Wilson, Black Codes (1965), p. 16. Kolchin, Peter (1993)...
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notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name...
ancient world. When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century)...
Europe". Codes governing slavery had already been established in many European colonies in the Americas, such as the 1661 Barbados SlaveCode. At this...
ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times...
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...
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The Indian Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade or Arab slave trade, was multi-directional slave trade and has changed over...
A slave name is the personal name given by others to an enslaved person, or a name inherited from enslaved ancestors. In Rome, slaves were given a single...
slavery were called slavecodes. In the territories and states established after the United States became independent, these slavecodes were designed by...
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population consisted of slaves. Statistics of these centuries suggest that Istanbul's additional slave imports from the Black Sea slave trade have totaled...
the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in...
The Barbary slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at slave markets in the Barbary states. European slaves were captured by Barbary...
In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery. The term also...
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known...