If that isn't substitution of peonage for chattel slavery, I don't know what the word peonage means. From Wordnik.com. [A Slave is a Slave] Reference
That was the whole point of much of their oppressive labor legislation — keeping the former slaves in peonage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why do Libertarians Like Federalism?] Reference
This was the only kind of peonage he liked to deal with. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
Indeed, under the name of "peonage" the work of re-establishing a system of slaveholding that is barbarous in the extreme is already begun. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
"Your Honor, the word 'peonage' has a specific meaning at law. From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
Debt peonage was extensive in certain rural areas. From Wordnik.com. [1867, Dec] Reference
I stayed in peonage out dere fer 'bout forty years. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
TRACIE WASHINGTON, WORKERS 'ATTORNEY: It's slavery, it's peonage. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2006] Reference
Yes, he worked for them, but it wasn't peonage or anything like that. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, November 15, 1974. Interview G-0056-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
At that time, in the 1960s, peonage still existed in the rural South. From Wordnik.com. [God Damn America?] Reference
But they were just a bunch of pariahs shipped here to live in peonage. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
They're scared of the law and some of them live in virtual peonage, still. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with William W. Finlator, April 19, 1985. Interview C-0007. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The system existing in the territory at that time was the system of peonage. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
I am back again to find you, my friends, in a state of industrial peonage. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Jones Speaks to Striking Coal Miners (historical)] Reference
It's a vicious cycle "recipe for economic suicide (from perpetual) debt peonage.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama's New World Order] Reference
Is it a wonder that he has resolved to go where peonage and blood-hounds are unknown?. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
Debt peonage was a postwar tool designed to ens ure continued Southern white supremacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Northern Migration] Reference
Federal investigations into peonage, also known as debt slavery, were rare and ineffective. From Wordnik.com. [The World War II Effect] Reference
We can contine to rebuild America; or, we can slide into permanent peonage, hostages to greed. From Wordnik.com. [Paula Gordon: Choose a Direction] Reference
This form of "debt slavery" or "debt peonage" was not just an accidental development of history. From Wordnik.com. [Debt Serfdom Comes to America] Reference
Today this system of debt peonage has replaced physical slavery and has come to dominate the world. From Wordnik.com. [Debt Serfdom Comes to America] Reference
On Oct. 13, 1941, a man named Charles E. Bledsoe pleaded guilty in Alabama federal court to peonage. From Wordnik.com. [The World War II Effect] Reference
The scheme worked, so a condition approximating peonage was developed upon several of the plantations. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
For some time scientists and techneers of all classes were kept in a form of peonage by "security" regulations. From Wordnik.com. [Star Flight]
He ordered all Department of Justice investigators to entirely drop reference to peonage in their written reports. From Wordnik.com. [The World War II Effect] Reference
But the House should hold firm to reducing or eliminating the guest worker program as an enforcer of peonage status. From Wordnik.com. [No Immigration Fix] Reference
Yanno, wall street represent materialism or mammonism people that would take your wealth and see you in debt peonage. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda] Reference
Etongwe, a fellow Cameroonian, runs a sort of underground railroad to help free young women from peonage as domestics. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery's New Face] Reference
More importantly, her spending habits may not only deliver her into peonage with MBNA, but may ruin relationships as well. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
In the rural communities of some parts of the South, it has created an "American Congo" in which peonage is practiced openly. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
The trap is a modern equivalent to peonage – a lifetime spent working to pay off debt on an asset of rapidly dwindling value. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Industry Insider Says the Mortgage Mess is Far Far Worse than You Suppose] Reference
The worker had to borrow for each; and the more he borrowed, the more closely he riveted upon himself the chains of peonage. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
He cannot attain the measure of success and usefulness toward which Providence points, if he is to be kept in a state of peonage. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 03, March, 1890] Reference
Economist Paul Krugman calls it "debt peonage," much like the post-Civil War South that forced debtors to work for their creditors. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part IV] Reference
Slavery has been abolished, but it left my people in a condition of peonage or caste worse than slavery, which had its humane masters. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The six are connected to a business operation in Immokalee, Fla., allegedly created to hold workers in involuntary servitude and peonage. From Wordnik.com. [New Abolitionists Fight Slavery in Tomato Fields] Reference
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