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peonage
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What does peonage mean?
noun
- The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.
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I, with a train load of other strikers, went to Louisiana and the whole bunch of us were practically forced into peonage.
Plain, simple instructions went out from Washington,--the freedom of laborers to choose employers, no fixed rates of wages, no peonage or forced labor.
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Thus it is that in the country districts of the South, by written or unwritten law, peonage, hindrances to the migration of labor, and a system of white patronage exists over large areas.