Austin Corbin
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Austin Corbin was a 19th-century American banking and railroad entrepreneur. He consolidated the rail lines on Long Island, bringing them under the profitable umbrella of the Long Island Rail Road.
Corbin Building, Manhattan
Peonage
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Peonage is any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or policy in which the victim or a laborer has little control over employment or economic conditions. A peon is a
Austin Corbin
…Suasa, who served as the Mayor of Rome from 1892 to 1899, he brought Italian immigrants to work on the plantation. However, Corbin was accused of "peonage." Corbin was the owner of the resort of Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. An antisemite, he banned Jews from patronizing the resort. He also developed the…
Foreman and country peon by Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1823 - 1870)
Foreman and rebel peon by Martín León Boneo, 1901.
Punishment of peons employed by American railroad tycoon Henry Meiggs in Chile or Peru, 1862
Cartoon of Indictment of US Planters and negro peonage