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

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 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.

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

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