bossale
noun/boʊˈsæl/
Etymology
From French bossale, from Spanish bozal (“wild, untamed, raw; born in Africa and recently enslaved in a colony”). Doublet of bozal and bosal.
- borrowed from bossale
Definitions
A black African-born enslaved person in a French (or sometimes other European) colony,…
A black African-born enslaved person in a French (or sometimes other European) colony, especially Haiti (as opposed to a slave born in the colony).
- In Louisiana, French colonists relied on bossales later than elsewhere as they first imposed the slavery system on Amerindians only. The first slave ship carrying Africans arrived in 1719 […]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA