The Assembly made escape or absence from confinement for 48 hours a felony for enslaved people sentenced to banishment or hard labour in chains, with death among the possible punishments. The law also allowed life chain labour and declared people so sentenced to be public property. Its language responds to prior rebellion and to escape attempts, preserving evidence of refusal even as it sought to suppress it.
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How did the 1797 chain-labour law treat escape from confinement?
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The statute made escape or prolonged absence felony and permitted severe punishment.
The 1797 chain-labour law treated escape from confinement as a serious felony.
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The law made escape or prolonged absence a felony and allowed severe penalties.