Report on Toleration Laws in Jamaica, 1831

Pamphlet containing six laws passed by the Jamaican legislature from 1826 to 1830. These laws expanded the rights of Jews, Catholics, Indians, and Black Jamaicans. Two laws specifically address the Jewish community: one granting them the rights and privileges of other British subjects (1827), and another repealing a law restricting voting and office holding in Kingston to Christians (1830). Published in London in 1831 in response to an address to the House of Commons requesting copies of colonial laws relating to religious and racial tolerance.

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