Barbados Slave Code
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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 colonial English legislature to provide a legal basis for slavery in the Caribbean island of Barbados.
It is the first comprehensive Slave Act, 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.
The slave code described black people as 'an heathenish, brutish and an uncertaine, dangerous kinde of people'.
The Barbados slave code ostensibly sought to protect slaves from cruel masters （"the Negroes and other Slaves be well provided for, and guarded from the Cruelties and Insolences of themselves
or other ill-tempered People or Owners"） and masters （and "any Christian"） from unruly slaves; in practice, it provided extensive protections for masters, but not for slaves.
The law required masters to provide each slave with one set of clothing per year, but it set no standards for slaves' diet, housing, or working conditions.
It denied slaves, as chattels, even the basic rights of people guaranteed under English common law, such as the right to life.
It allowed the slaves' owners to do entirely as they wished to their slaves for anything considered a misdeed, including mutilating them and burning them alive, without fear of reprisal.
For example, if an African person acted violently against an English person the law stipulated that they should be "severely whipped", have "his or her nose slit and shall be burnt in the face", while the next offence shall be "punished by death".
However, "if any Man shall of wantonness, or only of Bloody Mindedness, or Cruel Inte...
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