peonage in a sentence

1. Shortly afterwards, he served as secretary of the Abolish Peonage Committee.

2. Washington Blog warns that the rich would attempt to put us all in debt peonage.

3. Peru: land reform in the 1950s largely eliminated a centuries-old system of debt peonage.

4. A dozen of its first 34 special agents, for example, were experts in peonage—the modern-day.

5. Discrimination explains the persistence of debt peonage in the large cattle farms of the Chaco.

6. A dozen of its first 34 special agents, for example, were experts in peonage—the modern-day equivalent of slave labor.

7. "Debt" is one of the most frightening words in the English language, conjuring up visions of peonage, deprivation, and prison.

8. Under these conditions the alternative to government planning and regulation of the financial sector becomes a road to debt peonage.

9. Under these conditions the alternative to government planning and regulation of the financial sector becomes a road to debt peonage’

10. The most spectacular example of this is the history of the Republic of Haiti - the first poor country to be placed in permanent debt peonage.

11. Invariably, they not only fail to do so but often accrue a further debt in order to pay the first and end up on a treadmill of prostitution and debt peonage.

12. In the Americas, peonage was extended to include criminal peonage, where prisoners sentenced to hard labor were 'farmed out' to private or governmental groups.

13. Michael Hudson: There is no objective limit to how long Dollar Dependency, Debt Deflation and Debt Peonage can continue, unless victims fight back successfully.

14. In some regions, this practice is a form of peonage which borders on the abusive, while in others, it is an equitable agreement which may even empower the farmer.

15. You talk about the way they created architectural plans for colleges so that large demonstrations would not be possible, the use of student debt for debt peonage.

16. History has shown that vast inequalities of wealth, institutions like slavery, debt peonage, or wage labour, can only exist if backed up by armies, prisons, and police.

17. Yet like a phoenix rising from the ashes of lynch mobs, debt peonage, residential and labor discrimination, and rape, the black freedom movement raised a collective call of "No More"!