Redemptioner

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.

II. Redemptioner ·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.

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