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
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
That sounds, on the face of it, like a safeguard against peonage.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
