Are Forms of Coercion Essential to African Labor?

The slavery convention of 19 26 actually has exemptions for forced labor when itis used for public works. So in those cases, a colonial state could actually coerce could have regimes of forced labor to build roads and so forth. But also the very apparatus ofor the colonial regimes. Labor regimes enacted during this period are ones that use a variety of measures,. taxation, land alienation, to compel laborers to work in plantations and mines.