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Originally posted by drunkmonkey
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"In the early days of America, a common form of endentured servitude was "peonage", where one paid for the costs of one's passage by contracting oneself into the bonded servitide of he who funded the trip (or his designee). While these resemble voluntary contracts, the obligation and performance are so lopsided, and with the undesirable nature of the concentraton of power that ensues, such arrangements are generally considered to have been prohibited under the 13th Amendment. "
