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

The days of the corvée were now passed, and harsh impressment no longer compelled the habitant to fight on short rations and without pay.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon

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

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 principal are land transfer fees, pawnbrokers’ and other licences, duties on reed flats, commutation of corvée and personal services, &c.

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