Thesaurus / peonage
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I, with a train load of other strikers, went to Louisiana and the whole bunch of us were practically forced into peonage.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVISThe profit to England from Irish peonage cannot be assessed in terms of trade, or finance, or taxation.
THE CRIME AGAINST EUROPEROGER CASEMENTHad this bill not been bitterly opposed, the Irish people would have been subject to peonage equal to absolute slavery.
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOL. 13ELBERT HUBBARDJoseph Biggar had the floor and declared the bill was really a move to steal Irish children and sell them into perpetual peonage.
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOL. 13ELBERT HUBBARDMany of these acts betokened an intention on the part of the lawmakers to reduce the freedmen to a state of serfdom or peonage.
THE LIFE OF LYMAN TRUMBULLHORACE WHITEBut this was followed by servile and penal laws in all the Southern states that looked like peonage in place of slavery.
RACES AND IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICAJOHN R. COMMONSContract labor of this kind is quite different from the peonage and contract labor of the non-industrial races.
RACES AND IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICAJOHN R. COMMONSThe time had passed for a reëstablishment of slavery, but serfdom and peonage were still possible and probable.
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTHBOOKER T. WASHINGTONCapitalistic culture of cotton, the high price of cotton, and the system of labor peonage have made land high.
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTHBOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe scheme worked, so a condition approximating peonage was developed upon several of the plantations.
TERRYCHARLES GOFF THOMSONWORDS RELATED TO PEONAGE
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