Debtors in example sentence

As Christoph Trebesch and I document, a common pattern in the often-hostile back and forth between sovereign debtors and their creditors is the protracted nature of the resolution process.

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They viewed the people they sold not as fellow Africans but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes.

And so many of our lawsuits at Equal Justice Under Law target these modern-day debtors' prisons.

So, they'd take the debtors to this place and they'd say, "We're not letting you leave until you make a payment on your debt."

But if it wasn't, you'd stay there for days or weeks, and every day the guards would come down to the cells and haggle with the debtors about the price of release that day.

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