Bossale
Origin
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Full definition of bossale
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 (), 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 ...