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Whoever holds or returns any person to a condition of peonage, or arrests any person with the intent of placing him in or returning him to a condition of peonage, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
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Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows. NEW iPhone Audio English dictionary; Noun: peonage pee-u-nij ... penultima; penultimate; penumbra; penumbral; penurious; penuriously; penuriousness; penury; Penutian; peon peonage; peony; peony family; people; People against Gangsterism and Drugs;
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Summary: Section 1581 of Title 18 makes it unlawful to hold a person in "debt servitude," or peonage, which is closely related to involuntary servitude. Section 1581 prohibits using force, the threat of force, or the threat of legal coercion to compel a person to work against his/her will.
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peonage n. The condition of being a peon. A system by which debtors are bound in servitude to their creditors until their debts are ... Elizabeth Dore - Myths of Modernity: Peonage And Patriarchy in Nicaragua...
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Something more than a year ago the country was startled by the announcement that numerous indictments had been made in the Federal Court for the District of Alabama, for the crime of peonage.
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Definition of peonage from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... Learn more about "peonage" and related topics at Britannica.com...
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Encyclopedia article about peonage. Information about peonage in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... in 1936. In that year, too, debt peonage was abolished in Guatemala. In the United States after the Civil War, peonage existed in most Southern states as it had in the...
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The Legal Term * Involuntary Servitude & Peonage * Defined & Explained ... INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE & PEONAGE - a condition of compulsory service or labor performed by one person, against his will, for the benefit of another person due to force, threats, intimidation or other similar means of coercion and compulsion...
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Warren Buffett recently made headlines by saying America is more likely to turn into a "sharecroppers' society" than an "ownership society." But I think the right term is a "debt peonage" society - after the system, prevalent in the post-Civil War South, in which debtors were forced to work for their creditors.
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