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41 relations: American Civil War, American English, Bailey v. Alabama, Black Codes (United States), Boy Slaves, Calophyllum, Columbia, South Carolina, Conquistador, Day labor, Debt bondage, English language, Etymology, Feudalism, Freedman, Georgia (U.S. state), Handyman, Hodges v. United States, Indentured servitude, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mary Grace Quackenbos, New Mexico Territory, Peasant, Peon, Peon (slang), Peonage Act of 1867, Peter Matthiessen, Proletariat, Serfdom, Shadow Country, Shanghai, Sharecropping, Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies, Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Spanish Empire, Spanish language, Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Unfree labour, United States Congress, Urarina people, Vagrancy, Wage labour.
American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Bailey v. Alabama
Bailey v. Alabama,, was a United States Supreme Court case that overturned the peonage laws of Alabama.
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Black Codes (United States)
The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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Boy Slaves
Boy Slaves is a 1939 drama film starring Anne Shirley.
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Calophyllum
Calophyllum is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Calophyllaceae.
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Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia is the capital and second largest city of the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population estimate of 134,309 as of 2016.
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Conquistador
Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.
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Day labor
Day labor (or day labour in Commonwealth spelling) is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
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Debt bondage
Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery or bonded labour, is a person's pledge of labour or services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation, where there is no hope of actually repaying the debt.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Etymology
EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".
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Feudalism
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
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Freedman
A freedman or freedwoman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Handyman
A handyman, also known as a handyperson or handyworker, is a person skilled at a wide range of repairs, typically around the home.
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Hodges v. United States
Hodges v. United States was a decision by the United States Supreme Court limiting the power of Congress to make laws under the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Indentured servitude
An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed time.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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Mary Grace Quackenbos
Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (née Winterton) (1871-1948) was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney.
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New Mexico Territory
The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed (with varying boundaries) from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of New Mexico, making it the longest-lived organized incorporated territory of the United States, lasting approximately 62 years.
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Peasant
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or farmer, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees or services to a landlord.
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Peon
Peon (English, from the Spanish peón) usually refers to a person subject to peonage: any form of unfree labour or wage labor in which a laborer (peon) has little control over employment conditions.
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Peon (slang)
A (figurative) peon (reflecting the former institution of peonage and modern analogs of it) is a person with little authority, often assigned unskilled tasks, or an underling or any person subjected to capricious or unreasonable oversight.
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Peonage Act of 1867
The Peonage Abolition Act of 1867 was an Act passed by Congress on March 2, 1867, that abolished peonage in the New Mexico Territory and elsewhere in the United States.
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Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA agent.
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Proletariat
The proletariat (from Latin proletarius "producing offspring") is the class of wage-earners in a capitalist society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour-power (their ability to work).
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Serfdom
Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism.
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Shadow Country
Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
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Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies
Slavery in the Spanish American colonies was an economic and social institution central to the operations of the Spanish Empire - it bound Africans and indigenous people to a relationship of colonial exploitation.
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Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, or the Spanish–Aztec War (1519–21), was the conquest of the Aztec Empire by the Spanish Empire within the context of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire (Imperio Español; Imperium Hispanicum), historically known as the Hispanic Monarchy (Monarquía Hispánica) and as the Catholic Monarchy (Monarquía Católica) was one of the largest empires in history.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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Unfree labour
Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence (including death), compulsion, or other forms of extreme hardship to themselves or members of their families.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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Urarina people
The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin (Loreto) who inhabit the valleys of the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers.
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Vagrancy
Vagrancy is the condition of a person who wanders from place to place homeless with no regular employment nor income, referred to as a vagrant, vagabond, rogue, tramp or drifter.
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Wage labour
Wage labour (also wage labor in American English) is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer, where the worker sells his or her labour under a formal or informal employment contract.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peon
