Editing Barbados Slave Code (section)

==Excerpt==
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|text=If any Negro or slave whatsoever shall offer any violence to any Christian by striking or any other form of violence, such Negro or slave shall for his or her first offence be severely whipped by the Constable.

For his second offence of that nature he shall be severely whipped, his nose slit, and be burned in some part of his face with a hot iron. [...] And being brutish slaves, [they] deserve not, for the baseness of their condition, to be tried by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers, as the subjects of England are.

And it is further enacted and ordained that if any Negro or other slave under punishment by his master unfortunately shall suffer in life or member, which seldom happens, no person whatsoever shall be liable to any fine therefore.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Baker|first=William|date=1970|title=William Wilberforce on the Idea of Negro Inferiority|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708515|journal=Journal of the History of Ideas|volume=31|issue=3|pages=433–440|doi=10.2307/2708515|jstor=2708515 |issn=0022-5037|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Excerpts from "An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes"|url=https://www.oxfordfirstsource.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199794188.013.0204/acref-9780199794188-e-204|access-date=2021-03-20|website=Oxford First Source|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780199794188.013.0204|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024|archive-date=2017-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222003503/http://www.oxfordfirstsource.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199794188.013.0204/acref-9780199794188-e-204|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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