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 they don't believe in the corvée, surely?"

From Ringfield A Novel by Harrison, S. Frances (Susie Frances)

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

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