| The primary source of regulations was the slave code decreed by Spanish governor Don Miguel de la Torre on 12 August 1826. |
| The new Jamaican slave code, passed in December, 1826, was disallowed primarily on the ground that it obstructed mission work. |
| 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. |
| While each state had its own slave code, many concepts were shared throughout the slave states. |
| It was not until 1837, however, that the state's first legislature passed a comprehensive slave code to regulate slaves, slavery, and free blacks. |
| 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. |
