"peonage" meaning in English

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          "text": "But there was work to be done down in the Salinas Valley where César Chávez was organizing the grape pickers and lettuce workers out of their state of un-unionized peonage.",
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          "ref": "2014, Michael Nava, The City of Palaces, Terrace Books, page 191",
          "text": "\"It wasn't just the crowds,\" Luis said softly. \"I saw with my own eyes that Díaz's México is a Potemkin village, Miguel. The México profundo where the poor are so hungry they eat grass and bark. I met Indians whose land is being devoured by Díaz's cronies, entire towns swallowed up, and the people reduced to peonage. I talked to Mexican railroad workers who are paid a fraction of what the American owners pay their own countrymen for the same work.\"",
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          "sense": "the state of being a peon",
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          "sense": "the state of being a peon",
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