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
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
Before Brandeis joined the court, John Marshall Harlan wrote two landmark dissents about racial segregation and discrimination; Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote a majority opinion about the evils of Alabama’s peonage system.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2016
Sometimes we feel confident that our pounding away for nearly two years has frightened into inactivity those who were practicing peonage in the same State with the persons convicted and sentenced.
From Peonage The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15 by Hershaw, Lafayette M.
