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"You can't keep workers in peonage when there are so few that their value is great."
He agreed to pay off the peonage debts from the Delta.
The private banks licence from society to create money has created out of control debt peonage.
There was little human contact in the infernal world of his peonage.
His influence was also a primary cause of peonage.
Instead they were taken prisoner, held under guard and forced into prostitution or peonage.
But most of Brazil's modern forced labor cases involve debt peonage.
The firm was infamous for its style of industrial peonage with immigrant workers.
It was also a flight from conditions they associated with peonage and deeply resented.
However, bonded labor and debt peonage remained acceptable into the 20th century.
Ruggles Preston had shouted his new peonage to the world.
"Your Honor, the word 'peonage' has a specific meaning at law.
If the worker is forced to work off a debt to his employer, the offense becomes peonage.
The debt peonage, the system of inherited debts, has been abolished.
Comer was successful in turning back the peonage investigation.
Land reform in the 1950s largely eliminated a centuries-old system of debt peonage.
Under these provisions, Congress has legislated against slavery-like conditions, such as peonage.
A system of peonage was fine tuned, and the Italians were treated worse than most black farmworkers.
And it was true that an appointment in the Secret Service was a form of peonage.
It was a pattern the Sisterhood had long recognized: the inevitable failure of slavery and peonage.
Many issues faced the working poor, such as debt peonage and company stores that kept the populace poor.
They are free to leave only if they can first pay off bills they ran up at the company store (peonage).
Even after Brazil revoked slavery in 1888, it relied on indentured peonage.
Debt peonage and corporal punishment of workers were prohibited, child labor and working hours restricted.
For some time scientists and techneers of all classes were kept in a form of peonage by "security" regulations.