Local order no. 398 establishes prisons and disciplinary workshops for workers sanctioned under the 13 February decree. It allowed those sentenced to perform labor and, in specified circumstances, be assigned to private employers. The system applied to formerly enslaved people and later threatened contracted Indian workers, revealing how colonial authorities enforced labor after the formal end of slavery.
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How did the 13 February 1852 decree affect formerly enslaved workers?
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The decree linked labor obligations with rural policing and punishment for vagrancy.
Order no. 398 of 3 July 1852 banned private employers from using labor sentenced to disciplinary workshops.
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The order allowed some sentenced workers to be assigned to private employers.