peonage
Example Sentences
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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
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
The great promise of technical mastery of the world has led to increasing inequality, and for many, penury and new forms of peonage.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2017
Does peonage exist in any part of the United States to-day?
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.
