| 21. | On March 2, 1867, Congress passed the Peonage Act of 1867, which specifically targeted New Mexican slavery.
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| 22. | Enforcement of federal civil rights law in the South created numerous peonage cases, which slowly traveled up through the judiciary.
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| 23. | Following this ruling, institutional peonage was outlawed, as evidenced in Pennsylvania's Institutional Peonage Abolishment Act of 1973.
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| 24. | Following this ruling, institutional peonage was outlawed, as evidenced in Pennsylvania's Institutional Peonage Abolishment Act of 1973.
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| 25. | Lady Simon was most concerned about less conspicuous forms of servitude, including indentured labour, peonage, and debt bondage.
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| 26. | Three years later, the immigration agency had another opportunity to attack the problem of illegal Thai immigrants being held in peonage.
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| 27. | Because he was afraid they might talk to peonage investigators, he brutally killed, or had killed, at least 15.
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| 28. | The Supreme Court ruled in " Clyatt v . United States " ( 1905 ) that peonage was involuntary servitude.
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| 29. | The lot of native workers was little better than peonage, and everywhere there was a spy system to report subversive activities.
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| 30. | Further, in discussing peonage, stated, " The essence of the thing is compulsory service in payment of a debt.
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