peonage
Example Sentences
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Some 50 million people are in debt peonage to student loan companies.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 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
Her empathetic portraits of African-American field hands shine a light on a system of peonage that predated and outlasted the 1930s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2020
“They opposed all forms of free labor—not just slavery but serfdom, peonage, unpaid apprenticeship,” she said, peering at some undergraduates in front.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
All of which was as nothing compared to the labour squabbles and endless petty entanglements which arose from personal jealousy or political vindictiveness, peppered with dark hints of peonage, threats, demands, and whispers of graft.
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
