Corvée
Videos
Corvée is a form of unpaid forced labour that is intermittent in nature, lasting for limited periods of time, typically only a certain number of days' work each year. Statute labour is a corvée impose
14th-century serfs in England, working under the supervision of the lord's reeve at harvest time
Peasants seized for non-payment of taxes during the Old Kingdom of Egypt
Constructing a Main Road (1774). Projects like these would use manpower from the corvée royale.
Paul I's edict, the manifesto of three-day corvee
Suez Canal
Videos
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. It is the border between Africa a
Corvée
…The statement implies it was a common practice. Until the late 19th century, many of the Egyptian Public Works, including the Suez Canal, were built using corvée. Legally, the practice ended in Egypt after 1882, when the British Empire took control of the country and opposed forced labour…
The Suez Canal from space, showing the Great Bitter Lake at the centre (after the 2015 expansion)
As seen from the International Space Station (from a nominal altitude of 400 kilometres (250 miles))
An aerial view looking north towards the town of Suez
Suez Canal, 1869