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It was built with corvee labor, which is not quite the same thing: unpaid, yes, but done by farmers etc as a form of taxation in kind.
by Clewza313 6y ago
It was built with corvee labor, which is not quite the same thing: unpaid, yes, but done by farmers etc as a form of taxation in kind.
- arwineap 6y agoTaxation imposed by the state, but I haven't been able to find any citation of a tax code so to speak. It seems like state sponsored slavery, without a trade. That is no persons are being sold because they are simply using citizens Brutal.
- EricE 6y agoOh come now, governments can’t impose slavery - it was just taxation after all /s
- mannerheim 6y agoSlavery doesn't have to do with whether it was paid or not (many slaves have historically been paid as well) but rather the voluntariness of their work.