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Meaning of bossale | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
boʊˈsæl

Definitions

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).

historical

Examples

“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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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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