“She was a smart mechanic, but she was still a mere peon to the vassal that owned her.”

“Spanish-speaking peon laborers from Venezuela arrived in the nineteenth century to clear forests and work in cocoa cultivation.”

“A peon was seen walking that morning on the verandah with a letter in his hand.”

“The way to ensure that there aren't hungry people in the world is to give peasants land, unencumbered by debt peonage.”

“Many Yaqui and Mayo escaped from hacienda peonage, and the Yaqui had a large portion of their ancestral lands restored to them.”

“In parts of Peru, Mexico, Central America, and other areas, debt peonage was often used in export agriculture.”

“If you'll excuse me, I am rather busy, and don't care to discuss civic reform with peons.”

“Although we'd love to see that record in print, too, us superior folk would no longer have anything to lord over the peons.”

“It's too light to be a spoof, too superficial to get to the real meat of why rap culture inspires so many privileged peons.”