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Ink didn't end New Mexico's history of peonage

After the 13th Amendment and state laws were enacted, The New Mexican reported on slow end to Hispano and Indian debt slavery. ....

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N.M.'s history of debt peonage marked a state's path

For Natives and Hispanos who owed more than they could pay, the practice became a political battle sometimes fought with newspaper ink. ....

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