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Recent Examples of peonage
The Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.
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Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Further, this much control over the autonomy of an athlete’s rights to their own NIL rights combined with a financial obligation could also trigger scrutiny under the 13th Amendment, which, in addition to abolishing slavery, placed prohibitions on peonage (i.e., working against your will).
—Joe Sabin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Convict leasing, also called peonage, juxtaposed the infrastructure of the Old English debtor’s prison with the barbarism of chattel slavery to bolster American capitalism.
—Phillip Vance Smith, JSTOR Daily, 1 Feb. 2024
The Wilberforce Act covers physical abuse and peonage, which is forced labor.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
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Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Further, this much control over the autonomy of an athlete’s rights to their own NIL rights combined with a financial obligation could also trigger scrutiny under the 13th Amendment, which, in addition to abolishing slavery, placed prohibitions on peonage (i.e., working against your will).
—Joe Sabin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Convict leasing, also called peonage, juxtaposed the infrastructure of the Old English debtor’s prison with the barbarism of chattel slavery to bolster American capitalism.
—Phillip Vance Smith, JSTOR Daily, 1 Feb. 2024
The Wilberforce Act covers physical abuse and peonage, which is forced labor.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peonage
Noun
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Kollwitz’ life also coincided with the final days of aristocratic feudalism and serfdom in Germany and the nation’s economic transition to Industrialism.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Their desire for freedom was at the same time a denunciation of serfdom.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There was, however, a fateful exception: slavery or involuntary servitude would remain permissible as punishment for crimes.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 June 2025
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Later that year, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 June 2025
Noun
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That modern-day descendants of slaves seven generations removed from the Civil War — in a state that never instituted slavery — should not receive cash payments or special treatment is obvious and common sense.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 July 2025
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In 2024, she was denied a visa to Australia following remarks that minimized the Holocaust and controversial claims about Islam and slavery.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
Noun
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Through bondage and beyond, our ancestors never lost sight of their North Star: freedom.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
28 July 2025
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Much like Vivienne’s iconic Harris Tweed reinterpretations — designing bondage trousers made from the fabric for her Worlds End boutique — or her controversial takes on traditional punk hardware, this collection encouraged exploration over conformity.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Our Founding Fathers threw off the yoke of colonial rule and forged a new democratic nation, a shining city on the hill.—
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca,
Boston Herald,
4 July 2025
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That would put yoke on MacFarland’s face that is already smeared with a Denver omelette after Mikko’s postseason performance.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
4 June 2025
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“Peonage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peonage. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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