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English
Etymology
From French bossale, from Spanish bozal (“wild, untamed, raw; born in Africa and recently enslaved in a colony”). Doublet of bozal and bosal.
Pronunciation
Noun
bossale (plural bossales)
- (historical) 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).
2019, Aline Helg, Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 76: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 […]
Synonyms
- bozal (slave recently brought from Africa to a Spanish or other European colony)
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
bossale m or f (plural bossales)
- a bossale, an African-born slave in a European colony