The Code Rural, issued at the National Palace on 6 May 1826, sought to bind cultivators to plantation production through contracts and rural policing. Later scholarship documents penalties for so-called vagrancy and unauthorized travel, and unpaid corvée road work. The code did not restore legal chattel slavery: cultivators were legally free people. It did, however, impose coercive controls on work and movement, partly to secure export revenues used to service the indemnity debt.
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What labor system did the 1826 Code Rural seek to enforce?
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The code pressured free cultivators into plantation labor and regulated movement.