| The way to ensure that there aren't hungry people in the world is to give peasants land, unencumbered by debt peonage. |
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| Working conditions are brutal, often involving debt peonage and repeated exposure to pesticides. |
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| The transaction carries overtones of moves to reduce the autonomy of rural African Americans with the debt peonage of sharecropping or exploitation in industrial mills. |
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| In parts of Peru, Mexico, Central America, and other areas, debt peonage was often used in export agriculture. |
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| The waters wound through a South that was still defined by agricultural labor and debt peonage. |
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| When confronted with stories about tense negotiations in Washington, I have let my consciousness ramble freely over more agreeable subjects, such as debt peonage or vivisection. |
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| Because of manipulations by the owners, the workers often found that their indebtedness only grew the longer they toiled, so that debt peonage became a form of de facto slavery. |
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