Monday, February 7, 2011

Peon

A debtor in Mexico, who has to work for a creditor until his debts are worked off.

"If a debtor owes money and cannot pay it, his creditor is allowed by Law to make a slave or peon of him until the debt is liquidated."

Edward B. Tylor, Anahuac: or Mexico and the Mexicans (1860).

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