Debt bondage
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Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligations. Where the terms of the repaymen
Child labor in brick kilns in Nepal
Workers storing rice in India in 1952
A worker preparing fish caught off the coast of South Africa
Serfdom
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Serfdom was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery. It developed during late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in
Debt bondage
…become their creditors' chattel, as could other members of their families. The problem of debt bondage, in conjunction with the state's ability to levy serfs for labour, led many to flee their homes. Some of these fugitives formed bands of roving warriors called 'habiru-men', especially in the Levant of the…
Punishment with a knout. Whipping was a common punishment for Russian serfs.
Reeve and serfs in feudal England, c. 1310
Russian peasants reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory Myasoyedov
The proclamation by count Josip Jelačić abolishing serfdom in the Kingdom of Croatia