Clause II directed people sentenced to hard labor in chains to clear the interior woods and make roads across Grenada, under overseers and a sufficient guard paid at public expense. The provision transformed punishment into coerced infrastructure work, linking repression after rebellion to colonial circulation and control of the island’s interior.
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What work did the act assign to people confined in chains?
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The law prescribed guarded labor clearing the woods and making roads through the island.