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Peonage

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85099651
info:lc/authorities/sh85099651
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85099651#concept

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Bonded labor
Debt, Servitude for
Debt bondage
Debt slavery
Servitude
Servitude for debt

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Peonage

Sources

found: 2008419220: Understanding and eradicating bonded labour in India, 2008:t.p. (bonded labour)

found: Wikipedia, viewed on Jan. 16, 2009(Debt bondage or debt slavery or bonded labor are all terms describing a means of paying off loans with direct labor instead of currency or goods. In USA, it is called peonage)

LC Classification

HD4871-HD4875

Change Notes

1986-02-11: new

2016-02-18: revised

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