ACT for the BETTER ORDERING and GOVERNING NEGROES and OTHER SLAVES in this PROVINCE 1740

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• South Carolina’s Slave Code of 1740 was a series of laws aimed at controlling the population of enslaved African Americans. It prohibited slaves from gathering without white supervision, learning to read and write, and growing their own food. It also created harsher punishments for disobeying the law. The legislature enacted the Slave Code shortly after the Stone Rebellion, which reinforced slave owners’ fears of slave uprisings.