Meaning of Bozal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of bozal.
   alt-of, not-comparable
2. Of a slave, recently brought to a colony from Africa.
   historical, not-comparable

Examples

“I was assured that the labour of eight emancipated Africans was considered equal to that of twelve apprenticed labourers born in the colony; and on the same principle, a Bozal African, fresh from one of the market places of the Havana, commands an average price of twenty-four ounces of gold when sold by retail”

“They were libelled for salvage by the officers who took them up, and libelled as property by the miscreants called Spanish gentlemen who had bought them in Cuba, knowing them to be Bozal negroes fresh from Africa.”

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