Complex sentence: In practice, this obligation was a life sentence of forced labor.Civil rights for natives, no longer treated as natural law, had to be "earned" on a case by case basis under the designation of "assimilade".
Split into simpler sentences: In practice, this obligation was a life sentence of forced labor. This is where the civil rights came in.Civil rights for natives, no longer treated as natural law, had to be "earned" on a case by case basis under the designation of "assimilade".