peonage

From peon +‎ -age.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːənɪdʒ/

peonage (plural peonages)

1. The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 217:

     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.

• peonage slavery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “peonage” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.