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

But it is also the ideogram for šisîtu, the call of the nâgiru to war or the corvée.

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

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 had in 1756 remonstrated with the king against the corvée, declaring that the condition of the peasantry of France was "a thousand times less tolerable than the condition of the slaves in America."

From Life of Adam Smith by Rae, John

A right like the corvée had a sinister meaning.

From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon