Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colonial emigrant from Europe to America who paid for the voyage by serving for a specified period as a bondservant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who redeemed himself or purchased his release from debt or obligation to the master of a ship by his services, or one whose services were sold to pay the expenses of his passage to America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.
- noun Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
immigrant , generally from the 18th or 19th century, that gained passage toAmerica by selling themselves as anindentured servant . - noun Someone who
redeems oneself, such as fromdebt orservitude .
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Examples
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Though Clate Wellford and the other coal miners never heard the word redemptioner and indent, they were not unlike those pioneer victims of unscrupulous subordinates.
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945
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No taint was apparently attached to it, and many a worthy family had a "redemptioner" for its first
The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Henry Mann
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Brown, a fellow "redemptioner", and with their six children all drifted into Protestantism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Overdursh, --, Dutch redemptioner bought with his family, 167.
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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McComee had earned enough to pay back the price of his purchase money, and was no longer a redemptioner, but a free man and his own master.
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In the apportionment, or representation clause, the redemptioner and the apprentice counts each as a man, whereas five slaves are enumerated as only three free men.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Another Scotch redemptioner, named William Munroe, who was shipped to this country in the _John and Sara_, settled at Cambridge Fields or
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Now the negro is a human being, as well as an apprentice or a redemptioner, though the Constitution does not consider him as the equal of either.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Pennsylvania and many a redemptioner who had discharged his bond of servitude pressed out into Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, or beyond.
History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917
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I would have sooner, I believe, wrought by the side of any rascally redemptioner in the iron mines of the Patapsco than have gone to
Richard Carvel — Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909
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