| 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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| In parts of Peru, Mexico, Central America, and other areas, debt peonage was often used in export agriculture. |
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| Many Yaqui and Mayo escaped from hacienda peonage, and the Yaqui had a large portion of their ancestral lands restored to them. |
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| A series of laws in the United States Code also criminalize peonage, involuntary servitude, and forced labor. |
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| It also covers persons who are held against their will to pay off a debt, a practice known as peonage. |
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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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| Any child who is subject to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, peonage, or slavery through the use of force, fraud, or coercion is a victim of trafficking in persons regardless of the location of that exploitation. |
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| Penalties prescribed under these statutes range from five to 20 years' imprisonment for peonage, involuntary servitude, forced labor, and domestic servitude, and up to life imprisonment for aggravating circumstances. |
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| Johnson abolished peonage in 1966, which rapidly decreased sharecropping in every plantation nationwide. |
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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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| 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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