11. However, its many modern forms continue to include pawning, peonage , and worker debt. 12. *In Peru a peonage system existed from the 16th century until land reform in the 1950s. 13. Peonage existed historically during the colonial period, especially in Latin America and areas of Spanish rule.14. As such, the demand for not only slave labor but also peonage within these colonies grew. 15. If the worker is forced to work off a debt to his employer, the offense becomes peonage . 16. President Lyndon B . Johnson abolished peonage in 1966, which rapidly decreased sharecropping in every plantation nationwide. 17. The defense included claims that Franklin acted in self-defense and that the peonage laws were unjust. 18. Delegates ignored the fact that Taliban Muslim extremists have reduced the women and girls of Afghanistan to gender peonage . 19. Further, the peonage laws of Alabama were found to be contrary to the Thirteenth Amendment and therefore unconstitutional. 20. Because of the Spanish tradition, peonage was still widespread in New Mexico Territory after the American Civil War.
