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
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
On one of the little islands, let to a middleman, all the evil features of the corvée are brought into prominence.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.
The Intendant of Caen had already proposed to the inhabitants of that district the alternative plan of commuting the corvée into a money payment.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John
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
