| 11. | However, its many modern forms continue to include pawning, peonage, and worker debt.
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| 12. | *In Peru a peonage system existed from the 16th century until land reform in the 1950s.
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| 13. | Peonage existed historically during the colonial period, especially in Latin America and areas of Spanish rule.
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| 14. | As such, the demand for not only slave labor but also peonage within these colonies grew.
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| 15. | If the worker is forced to work off a debt to his employer, the offense becomes peonage.
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| 16. | President Lyndon B . Johnson abolished peonage in 1966, which rapidly decreased sharecropping in every plantation nationwide.
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| 17. | The defense included claims that Franklin acted in self-defense and that the peonage laws were unjust.
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| 18. | Delegates ignored the fact that Taliban Muslim extremists have reduced the women and girls of Afghanistan to gender peonage.
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| 19. | Further, the peonage laws of Alabama were found to be contrary to the Thirteenth Amendment and therefore unconstitutional.
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| 20. | Because of the Spanish tradition, peonage was still widespread in New Mexico Territory after the American Civil War.
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