Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877.
A corrupt system where sharecroppers were forced to keep working for a landowner in order to pay off inescapable debts for tools and seeds.
Debt peonage appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Making of America (1789–1900), especially Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877 and Reconstruction.
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