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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

Bavarian soldiers in greasy corvée lumbered among the charred chaos searching for their dead.

From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

They want us to pay some of the taxes—the corvée or the taille.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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