redemptioner

/ri-demp-shuh-ner/US // rɪˈdɛmp ʃə nər //UK // (rɪˈdɛmpʃənə) //

赎回者,救赎者,赎罪者,赎买者

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
American History.
- : an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.

And if my father came out a redemptioner, and worked his way, so had old Mr. Dulany.
No taint was apparently attached to it, and many a worthy family had a "redemptioner" for its first American ancestor.
Why did I leave my father's house to take you, a poor redemptioner just out of your time?
That's Black Jim Lewis, that stole me away from home and sold me for a redemptioner.
Mr. Quimby bought him at the wharf out of a redemptioner ship.