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
Back in Charleston, Waring continued to rule against peonage and the Democrats’ white primaries.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019
From the usual condition of the great mass of laboring men where these laws are enforced, to peonage is but a step at most.
From Peonage The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15 by Hershaw, Lafayette M.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
