Whole families, including children, are trapped into peonage to pay debts incurred by medical expenses, a funeral or crop failure.
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Gillsburg was home to the Wall family, one of the last black families to be held in peonage in the United States.
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They are free to leave only if they can first pay off bills they ran up at the company store ( peonage ).
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In the early 20th century, federal prosecutors such as Eugene Reese attempted to prosecute responsible parties under federal laws against debt peonage.
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The U . S . sought to counter foreign propaganda and increase its credibility on the race issue by combatting the Southern peonage system.
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As rubber workers, Chiquitanos experienced debt peonage and forced labor, but were primarily rented out by wealthy mestizos on whom they were dependent.
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Franklin was a sharecropper who wished to leave his employer although his employer had advanced Franklin wages under a contract known as " peonage laws ".
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Early last month, in the first of the recent series of raids, 72 illegal aliens were found in peonage at one site in El Monte.
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It held that although employers sometimes described their workers'entry into contract as voluntary, the servitude of peonage was always ( by definition ) involuntary.
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In some states, particularly Alabama, the state used the criminal justice system to reestablish a form of peonage, through the convict-lease system.
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