| 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. |
| 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. |
| The primary source of regulations was the slave code decreed by Spanish governor Don Miguel de la Torre on 12 August 1826. |
| Every slave state had its own slave code and body of court decisions. These codes made slavery permanent in these states. |
| These early Caribbean planters were among the first Europeans in the New World to erect such a comprehensive slave code. |
| It was not until 1837, however, that the state's first legislature passed a comprehensive slave code to regulate slaves, slavery, and free blacks. |
