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

Something analogous to the corvée existed, I believe, in Hungary till a comparatively recent period, when it was commuted for rent.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.

The myriads of unpaid labourers who were drafted by corvée from among the Chinese people subsequently enlisted, they or their children, under the revolutionary banner which expelled the oppressive Mongols.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

Whether the penalty of imprisonment with hard labor was ever inflicted is questionable; in a country where slavery existed and the corvée was in force there would have been but little need for it.

From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

The evils of the road corvée, meanwhile remained patent and indisputable.

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