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

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

Alabama yeomen had returned from the Civil War to face a sea change in agriculture, with those formerly independent farmers joining former slaves in peonage to the large landholders.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2017

It is difficult to determine how extensive the practice of peonage may be or how many victims may be held in its prison house.

From Peonage The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15 by Hershaw, Lafayette M.