In antiquity, the greatest social evil was the practice of people falling so deeply into debt that they would sell their children into slavery, or eventually sell themselves into slavery.

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• Person: Alex Bradshaw Organization: No Border Network
  Alex Bradshaw about the history of the phenomenon of debt

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• peonage concept