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debt peonage

How turn-of-the-20th-century Italian immigrants were tricked into debt peonage

John Fea   |  October 3, 2022

Writer Brad Ricca tells the story of the Italian immigrants of Sunnyside Plantation in Arkansas. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post: In the early 1900s, a small travel agency in Greenville, Miss., began sending representatives […]