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New York slave codes

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Preventing free people from trading with any enslaved person without permission of the slave-owner, suffering a fine of five pounds and thrice the value of anything traded.
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Changing the punishment for small crimes committed by slaves so that the slave-owner pays the fine and the slave suffers corporal punishment.
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Permitting slave-owners to punish their slaves as they see fit, short of maiming or killing them.
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Requiring a signed certificate for a slave to be on anyone other than their owner's property.
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Banning slaves meeting away from the slave-owner's property in groups of three or more.
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Acts of assembly, passed in the province of New-York, from 1691, to 1718
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The 1702 slave code was a 2-page act with six clauses, which were:
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Banning the testimony of slaves, except against other slaves.
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Olson, Edwin (1944). "The Slave Code in Colonial New York".
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