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	Debt trap peonage. (Nigeria's foreign debt) Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 11/1/1985; ; 700+ words ; ...which has already fallen into "debt trap peonage," the problem of escaping it breaks down...2) What makes it a case of debt trap peonage? (3) Why is it necessary to escape debt trap peonage? (4) How can that be done? (5) What...
	Dore, Elizabeth: Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua.(Book review) Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; Dore, Elizabeth Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua Durham, NC...s principal thesis in this book, debt peonage and land privatization during the coffee...over land, water, gender, and debt peonage. The coffee boom (a term not adequately...
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	Jury Convicts South Dakota Hotel Owners on Federal Peonage and Document Servitude Charges Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 11/8/2007; 700+ words ; ...jury found the Farrells guilty of conspiracy to commit peonage, peonage, document servitude, visa fraud, and making false...statements to federal agents. The Supreme Court has defined peonage as a status or condition of compulsory service, based...
	Forced Labor Swindles Brazil's Poor; Trickery, Necessity Fuel Old Practice of Debt Peonage Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/27/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...old practice in Brazil known as debt peonage, a form of forced labor that is widespread...s horrible." Marques said that debt peonage remains a problem in part because ranch...call off impending raids. She said debt peonage is so deeply embedded in the culture of...
	IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1925: Peonage Protest Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/28/2000; 161 words ; International Herald Tribune 07-28-2000 GENEVA Protests against the system of peonage now practised in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru have been received here by the League of Nations Commission on Slavery...
	TWO HOMESTEAD MEN SENTENCED FOR HOLDING MINOR TO A CONDITION OF PEONAGE News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/22/2007; 660 words ; ...Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages. Both defendants pled guilty to one count of holding a 17-year-old female to a condition of peonage, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1581. Jackson was sentenced to 84 months in prison, and Cotto was...
	INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ON JAN. 22: TWO HOMESTEAD MEN SENTENCED FOR HOLDING A MINOR TO CONDITION OF PEONAGE News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/22/2007; 687 words ; ...Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages. Both defendants pled guilty to one count of holding a 17-year-old female to a condition of peonage, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1581. Jackson was sentenced to 84 months in prison, and Cotto was...

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	John S. Williams and Clyde Manning Trials: 1921 Book article from: Great American Trials ...For example, there was the system of "peonage" whereby blacks were held in servitude...to pay off what they owed; for most, peonage equaled a lifetime of hardship and toil...returned to whatever punishment awaited him. Peonage Outlawed, But Flourishes for 50 Years...
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