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no. They had prison labor and restorative justice. Native American tribes that took prisoners in conflicts made them earn their keep. The prisoners were not owned by individuals. They were not seen as sub human and once they had earned the trust of the tribe and paid for whatever wrongs they had done they were integrated into the community.
Forced labor is still slavery.
There are other forms of slavery beyond the chattel slavery practiced by the Greco-Romans & Euro-Americans.
By that logic the USSR DPRK and PRC all are slave states because they made prisoners break rocks in the gulag.
Not all forced labor is slavery.
Forced labor isn't technically slavery in the same way serfdom isn't technically slavery and corvée isn't technically slavery and wage labor isn't technically slavery.
I'm far less concerned with the intricacies of it and exact definitions when compared to the actual practice itself.
What if it's forced but you still get paid?