A Peonage
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The state of being a </span><a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peon" title="peon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">peon</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">; the </span><a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/system" title="system" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">system</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> of paying back </span><a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/debt" title="debt" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">debt</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> through </span><a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/servitude" title="servitude" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">servitude</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/labour" title="labour" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">labor</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude. </span>