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330.735 - 351.777 Andrew Sage

Land that had once been communally managed was swiftly privatized, driving indigenous communities and small farmers off their lands and into the workforce of larger estates. On those estates, workers would find themselves in debt bondage. Tied to the estates are small debts that workers owed to landowners would spiral into insurmountable debts that would become nearly impossible to repay.