“That's Black Jim Lewis, that stole me away from home and sold me for a redemptioner.”
“This proprietor, who is now so wealthy, came over a redemptioner, and owes his present wealth to his industry and frugality.”
“The Sot-Weed Factor gives a much less rose-colored account of the life of a redemptioner.”
redemptionism
(theology) The doctrine that all of humanity was redeemed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and that the redemption of all was completed and concluded in Jesus's resurrection, and that there was no further need for scriptural fulfillment thereafter.
“But while William Wyler focuses on women as redeemers, Doc scripts them as Jezebels.”
“All too predictably, postwar commentators cast white women as both the causes and the potential redeemers of a deteriorating society.”
“They have also held out the invitation to their readers among the political and intellectual elites to join them in becoming their nation's redeemers.”