corvee
Example Sentences
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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 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.
The milice supplied as bad troops as the corvée supplied bad roads.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John
Bavarian soldiers in greasy corvée lumbered among the charred chaos searching for their dead.
From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
