Proposals introduced in 1823 to improve conditions of slavery in the British Caribbean?

In 1823, a series of laws known as the Amelioration Acts were passed in the Caribbean in an effort to improve conditions for slaves. Wide sweeping proposals such as not allowing overseers to carry whips in the fields, encouraging slave marriages, not allowing the payment in slaves to settle a debt, and forbidding the separation of slave families. However, white planters refused to accept the proposals and they were never enforced.