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The New Peonage


"The New Peonage" by Tamar R. Birckhead

Although the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in 1865, the text created an exception for the ...

The New Peonage

Yet, in the wake of the Civil War,. Southern states innovated ways to impose peonage but avoid violations of the law, including criminal surety statutes that.

"A New Peonage?" by Noah D. Zatz

Child support enforcement is one of several contemporary contexts in which the state threatens to incarcerate people if they fail to work.

Tamar R. Birckhead - The New Peonage - Search eLibrary :: SSRN

The Article then chronicles the legal history of peonage from the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment through the early twentieth century. It ...

The New Debt Peonage in the Era of Mass Incarceration

In 1867, Congress passed legislation that forbid the practices of debt peonage. However, the law was circumvented after the period of ...

The New Peonage | Casetext

Two years later, Congress passed The Peonage Act in an attempt to prohibit the practice of coerced labor for debt, but in the wake of the Civil ...

The New Debt Peonage in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Debt peonage was presumable ended in the 1940s by the Justice Department. But was it? The era of mass incarceration has institutionalized a new form of debt ...

Liberty and Precarity for Workers in the Gig Economy

Despite the promise of liberty in the gig economy, workers are increasingly subject to a new form of peonage, exploitative practices reminiscent of slavery and ...

Peonage | Forced Labor, Debt Bondage & Coercion - Britannica

Peonage, form of involuntary servitude, the origins of which have been traced as far back as the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when the conquerors were able ...

Slavery v. Peonage | Themes | Slavery by Another Name - PBS

Workers were often unable to re-pay the debt, and found themselves in a continuous work-without-pay cycle. But the most corrupt and abusive peonage occurred in ...

Peonage, or the New Slavery - Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

The labor system of the South had grown upon a basis of slavery, under which the black laborer worked for the benefit of the white masters.

Peonage - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude - Justia Law

Defined as a condition of enforced servitude by which the servitor is compelled to labor against his will in liquidation of some debt or obligation, either ...

Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support E" by Noah ...

Recommended Citation. Noah D. Zatz, A New Peonage?: Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support Enforcement and Beyond, 39 SEATTLE U. L. REV.

Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support Enforcement ...

Birckhead, The New Peonage, 72 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1595. (2015). However, its analogy relies entirely on the role of criminal justice, cycles of debt, ...

Criminal Fines and the New Debt Peonage for Poor Fathers

Nonetheless, debt peonage is alive and well in this country, as people are imprisoned for their failure to pay court-imposed fees and fines.

Amendment 13 – “The Abolition of Slavery” - Ronald Reagan Library

Peonage would not be officially considered unconstitutional until Bailey v. Alabama in 1911, however. The provision of “slavery” and “indentured servitude” ...

The New Debt Peonage: Court-Ordered Community Service in LA ...

The New Debt Peonage: Court-Ordered Community Service in LA County ... Each year Los Angeles County courts order upwards of 100,000 adults to work ...

Peonage in the United States – August 1907

As the chain gangs and the convict lease system are operated in the South to-day they violate the law against peonage, the constitutionality of which was ...

Interpretation: The Thirteenth Amendment | Constitution Center

Originally a Spanish practice, peonage was practiced in the New Mexico Territory and spread across the Southern United States after the Civil War. Former ...

Amdt13.S1.3.1 Scope of the Prohibition - Constitution Annotated

Id. Congress also enacted several laws prohibiting peonage and activities in support thereof pursuant to its Thirteenth Amendment enforcement power. See, e.g., ...