How to Use peonage in a Sentence

peonage

noun

• By now, so much online territory has been seized by our e-overlords that the rest of us have been reduced to e-peonage.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• They can not be extricated from the theory that a class of people carry peonage in their blood.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 2 Oct. 2017
• All this on-screen peonage feels rather academic given the tyranny of real-life lockdown.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
• This is where the system of debt peonage really emerges in the South, as a way of controlling African Americans from Reconstruction and until the 1950s.
  — Gaby Del Valle, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
• If the government doesn’t tread carefully, a future of debt peonage to China beckons.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Her empathetic portraits of African-American field hands shine a light on a system of peonage that predated and outlasted the 1930s.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• The percentage of sharecroppers and tenant farmers tripled, until nearly one family in three was reduced to peonage, working for someone else—working just to live.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor’s children.
  — Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• That requires power projection, so China has turned a dozen countries around the world into client states through debt peonage, collateralizing abusive loans with concessions for military bases and deep-water ports.
  — Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 5 Sep. 2019
• Another reader learned how her white ancestor upheld the peonage system in early 20th century Georgia.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2020
• In parts of southern Mexico, such as Yucatán and Chiapas, debt peonage tied laborers to plantations as effectively as violence.
  — Alice Baumgartner, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
• Among these players are the approximately 96% who will not go pro, and for whom a college athletic scholarship, where they are expected to subordinate education to athletic performance, is more akin to peonage.
  — Time, 30 Mar. 2021
• Eight states passed laws disenfranchising the urban poor, and the new state of California prohibited slavery but established the practice of peonage on Native Americans that denied them political rights.
  — Time Staff, Time, 26 Sep. 2017
• Amendment prohibitions against peonage and involuntary servitude.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024