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

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

Back in Charleston, Waring continued to rule against peonage and the Democrats’ white primaries.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019

These complaints come from every one of the former slave-holding States, with the exception of Missouri, and since the publication of this report cases of peonage have been found in that State.

From Peonage The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15 by Hershaw, Lafayette M.