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 herdsmen which are the property of Apil-Shamash and Naram-Sin shall not be put in the corvée.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

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

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.

"Duty work," so far as I can gather, is, or was—for no such work will be done again in Ireland—a modified, form of the corvée.

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