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• n  the act of coercing someone into government service

• De Lesseps was accused of employing slave labor by using the corve (impressment of workers), but when the practice was halted and the fellahin laid down their primitive picks and .
• There are no scenes of impressment in the book, nor any of murder.
• De Lesseps was accused of employing slave labor by using the corve (impressment of workers), but when the practice was halted and the fellahin laid down their primitive picks and .

• impress

News & Articles

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• UNCP Notebook: Staffer’s book published as part of Civil War series -
  PEMBROKE — In her new book “Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South,” Jaime Amanda Martinez reexamines one of the most dearly held beliefs about the Civil War.
  March 3, 2014 - The Robesonian