redemption
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If unsuccessful, these redemptioners repaid their debts with stints of indentured servitude.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Many of these had been among the thousands of skilled redemptioners and indentured servants who entered the middle colonies during the eighteenth century to work in the region’s towns and cities.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Mr. Grymes was secured as counsel in their cause; but on some account not now remembered by survivors scarce a week had passed before they were being sold as redemptioners.
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
The majority were of the peasant and artisan class who usually came over as redemptioners.
From Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Orth, Samuel Peter
Cargoes of redemptioners came into American ports as late as the year 1818.
From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen
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