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

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

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019

“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

That sounds, on the face of it, like a safeguard against peonage.

From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)