designed for the slave societies of the Americas. English colonies largely had their own local slave codes, mostly based on the codes of either the colonies...

write a comprehensive slave code, its code was especially influential." The Barbados Slave Code served as the basis for the slave codes adopted in several...

The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House...

Civil War, white legislatures passed Black Codes modeled after the earlier slave codes. (The name "Black Codes" was given by "negro leaders and the Republican...

The New York slave codes were a series of slave codes passed in the Province of New York to regulate slavery. The first slave code was passed in 1702...

established its first slave code in 1695. The code was based on the 1684 Jamaica slave code, which was in turn based on the 1661 Barbados Slave Code. The South Carolina...

know as slave codes. Patrols enforced what were called slave codes, laws which controlled almost every aspect of the lives of enslaved people. Slave patrols...

own slave code, many concepts were shared throughout the slave states. According to the slave codes, some of which were passed in reaction to slave rebellions...

Retrieved 1 May 2025. Wilson, Black Codes (1965), p. 15. Taylor loc 491. Taylor loc 604 Taylor loc 598 Wilson, Black Codes (1965), p. 16. Levy, Andrew. The...

slave population in the 1670s and 1680s never exceeded 10,000, by 1800 it had increased to over 300,000. The increased implementation of slave codes or...

colonies. Codes governing slavery had already been established in many European colonies in the Americas, such as the 1661 Barbados Slave Code. At this...

In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was...

export of firearms and other manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves, who were then transported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations...

the man who held Nat and his family as slaves, called the infant Nat in his records. Even when grown, the slave was known simply as Nat, but after the...

ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times...

A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...

The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state...

subsequent slave rebellions in the Indian Territory. But, in the aftermath of this escape, the Cherokee Nation passed stricter slave codes, expelled freedmen...

slavery were called slave codes. In the territories and states established after the United States became independent, these slave codes were designed by...

2023). Spanish officials established slaves codes in the 1770s. Under U.S. rule, Missouri's territorial slave code was enacted in 1804, a year after the...

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 breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth...

were codified into Virginia's first slave code, An act concerning Servants and Slaves. The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 stated that people who were not...

The division is of importance in the Germanic law codes, which make special provisions for slaves, who were property and could be bought and sold, but...

medieval 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)...

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...

held slaves, particularly in the South around New Orleans, where they established sugarcane plantations. Louis XIV's Code Noir regulated the slave trade...

The trans-Saharan slave trade, also known as the Arab slave trade, was a slave trade in which slaves were mainly transported across the Sahara. Most were...

was also given to slave "patrolers," an early form of police forces who were authorized to whip any slave who violated the slave codes. Historians have...

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...