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

On Judah Jehoiakim imposed the cruel corvée, which in our day Ismail Pasha imposed upon Egypt.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir

The corvée, vexatious as it was, yet excited less violent heats and inflicted less misery than the abuses of military service.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John

The seigneur levied a corvée of so many days' labour, which he employed on the useful task of improving the highway.

From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon

That undying class who are contented with the shallow presumptions of à priori reasoning in economic matters, did, it is true, find specious pleas even for the road corvée.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John