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Peonage

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A condition of enforced servitude by which a person is restrained of his or her liberty and compelled to labor in payment of some debt or obligation.

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Involuntary Servitude.
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50) Pete Daniels, The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969 (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1972).
Joel Augustus Rogers: Negro historian in history, time, and space by Simba, Malik / Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
the degradation of the blacks through peonage, unjust laws, unfair and cruel treatment; and the degradation of the whites by resorting to these practices, the paralyzation of the public conscience, and the ever over-hanging dread of what the future might bring.
Revising critical judgments of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by Andrade, Heather Russell / African American Review
He was hired to lure underdeveloped countries into expensive infrastructure projects which put them into debt and ultimately into debt peonage to the global financial institutions, which sapped their autonomy.
University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education by Bridenthal, Renate / Radical Teacher
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