corvee

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To do so, they resurrected corvée, a 19th-century Haitian law for indentured labor.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

Their arrangement in horizontal courses or grouping at stated intervals, into those lines of battlements with which every wall was crowned, was done by the men of the corvée.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

Liability for forced labor The army and corvée, or levy for forced labor, were chiefly obtained from the slaves, and above all from the serfs.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Military service is the only corvée which the Russian peasants regard with real horror.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

The hateful slavery of the Cagayanes had been abolished; the forced cultivation of tobacco was a thing of the past, and in all the Archipelago the corvée had been reduced.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.