Various forms of unfree labor have been a feature of U.S. society since the first tobacco plantations were established in the early English colonies. From trapping English and Irish immigrants in indentured servitude to subjecting kidnapped Africans to chattel slavery, and from tying freedmen to plantations in Jim Crow-era sharecropping arrangements to exploiting Mexican Bracero guest workers and interned Japanese Americans during World War II, the U.S. economy has always relied on the