| These early Caribbean planters were among the first Europeans in the New World to erect such a comprehensive slave code. |
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| The slave code adopted in 1798 and modified from time to time presented in considerable detail the legal aspects of slavery in the state. |
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| The new Jamaican slave code, passed in December, 1826, was disallowed primarily on the ground that it obstructed mission work. |
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| This first Georgia slave code, which was not as detailed as the codes of the older slave colonies, was quickly determined to be too lenient. |
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| The drafters of the 1712 slave code pursued such goals when writing the preamble of the first comprehensive slave code enacted in South Carolina. |
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| After Virginia legislators enacted that colony's first comprehensive slave code in 1705, internal rather than outside influences predominated. |
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| Following the disallowance by the proprietors, a new slave code, again based on Barbadian principles, was enacted in 1696. |
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| Every slave state had its own slave code and body of court decisions. These codes made slavery permanent in these states. |
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| The primary source of regulations was the slave code decreed by Spanish governor Don Miguel de la Torre on 12 August 1826. |
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| The Barbados slave code was established on the island of Barbados, a British colony, in 1661. It was the first official law regarding slave status. |
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| It was not until 1837, however, that the state's first legislature passed a comprehensive slave code to regulate slaves, slavery, and free blacks. |
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| While each state had its own slave code, many concepts were shared throughout the slave states. |
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