Trafficking vs Peonage - What's the difference?
trafficking | peonage |
The distribution of illegal drugs
the smuggling of illegal arms
(biochemistry) The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue
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 .