Slave codes in Barbados were based on those that were in practice in seventeenth-century England.

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Slave codes in Barbados were based on those that were in practice in seventeenth-century England.  ​

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Slave codes in Barbados, known as the Barbados Slave Code of 1661, were not based on practices in seventeenth-century England but were instead specifically created for the island to manage the large enslaved population and were some of the earliest formal codifications of laws regarding slavery in the English colonies.

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