-
Spanish pronunciation: [peˈon])
usually refers to a
person subject to
peonage: any form of wage labor,
financial exploitation,
coercive economic practice...
- The
Peonage Abolition Act of 1867 was an Act p****ed by the U.S.
Congress on
March 2, 1867, that
abolished peonage in the New
Mexico Territory and elsewhere...
- has
rarely been
cited in case law, but it has been used to
strike down
peonage and some race-based
discrimination as "badges and
incidents of slavery"...
- with the
title Peonage. If an
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Peonage slavery can...
- 2014) was an
American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery,
known as
peonage, near Gillsburg,
Mississippi and Kentwood,
Louisiana until her
family achieved...
- Debt bondage, also
known as debt slavery,
bonded labour, or
peonage, is the
pledge of a person's
services as
security for the
repayment for a debt or...
- of the New York
University School of Law and was a
leader in
exposing peonage in the
American South. She was also
known for a
short time as "Mrs. Sherlock...
-
leased from Baker,
Alachua and
Bradford counties,
holding the
convicts in
peonage.
Knabb was
elected to the
Florida Legislature in 1921 and
served as a state...
- four
Flagler employment agents in 1908 for "conspiracy to hold
workmen in
peonage and slavery," the Flagler-owned The
Florida Times-Union and
other Florida...
- crime. However,
unfree labor still existed legally in the form of the
peonage system,
especially in the New
Mexico Territory, debt bondage,
penal labor...
