| The master was tried for peonage in Texas, but was not convicted. |
| It also covers persons who are held against their will to pay off a debt, a practice known as peonage. |
| Horse-hire, peonage, and most mechanical work must be paid for in advance. |
| Many Yaqui and Mayo escaped from hacienda peonage, and the Yaqui had a large portion of their ancestral lands restored to them. |
| 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. |
| In his message Governor Dawson declared without equivocation that a system of peonage existed under the guard system. |
