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n. The condition of being a peon.

n. A system by which debtors are bound in servitude to their creditors until their debts are paid.

n. The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.

n. The condition of a peon.

n. A form of servitude existing in Spanish America. It prevailed especially in Mexico.

n. The holding, by illegal methods, of free negroes or whites in a condition of semi-slavery, specifically in the southern part of the United States: also applied to the abuse of the convict lease system in the South.

n. In India, service or employment of peons as messengers, etc.

n. the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged

n. the condition of a peon

"If that isn't substitution of peonage for chattel slavery, I don't know what the word peonage means."

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