The Cuban Reglamento de esclavos of 1842

The slave regulation drawn up in Havana under governor Jerónimo Valdés by a fiscal, a government assessor and a war auditor: it fixed fifty pesos as the sum an owner could not refuse for coartación, capped the resale price of a part-paid person, then made the benefit strictly personal so no child inherited it. A Cuban lawyer in 1866 ranked its authors below the royal code of 1789, and said why — the slave trade was booming.