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A very large proportion of the immigrants died on the passage. A German pastor writes in 1773 of a shipload of 1,500 German emigrants only 400 of whom lived to see the new land. The sale of "redemptioners" continued to be legal until 1820. It certainly resulted in the importation of a very much
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