peonage
Example Sentences
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Rather, the poorer and more vulnerable you are, the more you are exploited, thrust into a hellish debt peonage from which there is no escape.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2022
The peonage system lasted across the South for seven decades until World War II, yet many Americans have never heard of it.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor’s children.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Alabama yeomen had returned from the Civil War to face a sea change in agriculture, with those formerly independent farmers joining former slaves in peonage to the large landholders.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2017
They are slavery, peonage, contract labor, and free labor.
From Races and Immigrants in America by Commons, John R. (John Rogers)
