redemptioner

redemptioner读音音标

英 [rɪ\'dempʃnər]

美 [rɪ\'dempʃnər]

redemptioner意思解释

n.

出卖劳力来抵偿船资的移民；

英英释义

Redemptioners were European immigrants, generally in the 18th or early 19th century, who gained passage to America (most often Pennsylvania) by selling themselves into indentured servitude to pay back the shipping company which had advanced the cost of the transatlantic voyage. British indentured servants generally did not arrive as redemptioners after the early colonial period due to certain protections afforded them by law.