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Definition of Peonism
1. n. Same as Peonage.
Definition of Peonism
1. Noun. peonage ¹
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Definition of Peonism
1. peonage [n -S] - See also: peonage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peonism
Literary usage of Peonism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. El Gringo: Or, New Mexico and Her People by William Watts Hart Davis (1857)
"peonism. —Law upon the subject. THE state of the mechanic arts among the New
Mexicans is very low, and apparently without improvement since the earliest ..."
2. Review of Webster's Speech on Slavery by Wendell Phillips (1850)
"He ' understands ' ' that peonism, a sort of penal servitude, or rather, ...
peonism ! what a pretty name ! ' A lie may keep its throne a whole age longer, ..."
3. A Short Constitutional History of the United States by Francis Newton Thorpe (1904)
"Racial hostility, if supported to any degree by law or public sentiment, forces
the remainder inevitably into peonism, or toward slavery. ..."
4. The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase: United States Senator by Jacob William Schuckers (1874)
"Is it true," he asked, " that any law of physical geography will protect the new
Territories from the curse of slavery ? peonism was there under the Mexican ..."
5. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"I understand that peonism, a sort of penal servitude, exists there, or rather a
sort of voluntary sale of a man and his offspring for debt, an arrangement ..."
6. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States by Horace Greeley (1864)
"I understand that peonism, a sort of penal servitude, exists there, or rather a
sort of voluntary sale of a man and his offspring for debt—an arrangement of ..."
7. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster (1881)
"... understand that peonism, a sort of penal servitude, exists there, or rather
a sort of voluntary sale of a man and his offspring for debt, an arrangement ..."
8. Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi by Katharine Coman (1912)
"... by the mailed hand, upon eighty thousand mongrels who cannot read, — who are
almost heathens, — the great mass reared in real slavery, called peonism, ..."
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