The redemptioners mainly sailed from the northern ports of Ireland, Belfast or Londonderry, though this country by no means enjoyed the unenviable monopoly of this traffic: Holland and Germany sending their wretched quota of white slaves.
The quality of redemptioners varied from the very dregs of society to well-to-do apprentice planters; but the general run was doubtless fairly representative of the English working classes.
We let bygones be bygones with the redemptioners and slaves--all but those devils who got away that night at Verney Manor, and with Trail at their head, made for Captain Laramore's ship which was going to turn pirate.
But half a dozen blacks, but there will be several redemptioners if you prefer to be numbered with them.
Like the negroes, the Redemptioners could be resold.
The following is an instance of the revolting horrors connected with this trade: In 1793, when the yellow fever prevailed in Chester, a cargo of Redemptioners was sent thither, and a market for nurses opened.
Very generally these redemptioners were of non-English stock.
Some of the descendants of the Irish redemptioners in Massachusetts are found among the prominent New Englanders of the past hundred years.
One by one the redemptioners clambered clumsily over the rail of the sloop and down into the boat alongside, stumbling over the thwarts in the darkness and settling themselves amid the growling and swearing of the sailors.
He did not then pay any attention to the group of redemptionersgathered at the rail.
The other redemptioners had roused themselves somewhat at the coming of the man and were listening.
Several of the redemptioners had come up on deck; one or two of them, doubtless remembering the tumult and disorder of the night before, wore a hang-dog doubtful look.
He found the crimp and gave him Hezekiah’s release, and then the redemptioners immediately began to make themselves ready.
On the city's south side sprung up the new city of Lafayette, now the Fourth District of New Orleans, and many of the aforetime redemptioners moved thither.
The redemptioners had made the cause their own and prepared to sustain it with a common purse.
The redemptioners worked their way out of bondage into liberty.
It is said that these redemptioners were often treated much more harshly and cruelly than the negro slaves, and any one who assisted one of them to escape was severely punished.
The people who owned redemptioners could sell them again if they chose; and it often happened that some of them passed into the possession of several families before they finally served out the term for which they had been sold.
But the trade in redemptioners gradually decreased; and by the middle of the eighteenth century there were not many of them left in New Jersey, although there were a few in the State until after the Revolution.
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