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
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
“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
I stayed in peonage out dere fer 'bout forty years.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
