Barbados slave code
1661 · Event
The first comprehensive English slave law defines Africans as property without rights; copied across the Caribbean and the American colonies, it is the legal template of plantation slavery.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, Master, British Empire
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Around 1661
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- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- English Civil War (1642)
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- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
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