corvee

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

Laborers forced into corvée fled their captors and joined the fight.

Anyone who attempted to escape corvée labor was treated like a deserter, and many were shot.

One polity in this nation developed the position of uparaja under Trailokanat and used a corvee system of nai and phrai before it fell to Alaungpaya.

He envied those not burdened with “water duty,” or “corvée de l’eau,” as it is referred to here — the trek, and then the lowering of bowls or buckets, by rope, into the deep wells.