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
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
The introduction here of the peonage system prevalent in Mexico, the coolie system of China, or the padrone system of Italy fall within the prohibition.
From The Short Constitution by William F. Russell
