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

"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.

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

He identifies arbja with the Slavonic, rab, servant, slave, and arbeit with rabota, corvée, supposing that sons and heirs were the first natural slaves.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

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