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- adjective Of a
slave , recently brought to a colony fromAfrica . - noun A
slave recently brought to a colony fromAfrica .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "Bozal" negroes are called "Ladinos," and no examination is made by the Governor or any officer of his, into the truth of the statement, but the permit is granted for the removal of the negroes falsely called Ladinos, on the simple application of the buyers, on the payment of the fees, and no oath required of them.
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The Swede had already gained fame in the Turkish campaign from his swift and daring deeds, and when he started from the Fort of Bozal against the rebels his sole troops consisted of 400 hussars and 600 infantry, with four guns.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871
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Larionoff returned home after the first battle of Bozal, where the rebels proved victorious, whilst Bibikoff died from the hardships of the winter campaign.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871
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The re-unions of Bozal negroes on festival days, in common use at the Havana, in which dancing, singing, and playing on rude instruments (ataboles) great clamour and confusion are the chief amusements.
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In contra-distinction to Bozal, a negro born in Africa, but acclimated in Cuba, able to speak in Spanish, and supposed to be introduced before the slave-trade was prohibited.
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That to apply for these permits, and obtain them, representing Bozal negroes as
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Cuba, Bozal, a term given to negroes recently from Africa: that the document then produced before him, dated June 26th, 1839, and signed by Espelata, the Captain General of Cuba, was a permit for the transportation of 49 slaves on board of the Amistad from Havana: that they are called in the permit, Ladinos, a term given to negroes long settled and acclimated in Cuba.
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It was proved, however, that they were _Bozal_ negroes, that is, such as had been very lately introduced, and the testimony on both sides, on this point, established a fact that is but too notorious, that the slave trade to Cuba is openly carried on with the connivance, and even with the corrupt participation of the authorities.
A Visit to the United States in 1841 Joseph Sturge 1826
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Just as I have heard and seen in the _barracones_ of Bozal negroes for sale, when, at the crack of the black negro-driver's whip, and not unfrequent application of the lash, the flagging gang of exhausted slavery has ever and again set up that chant of revelry, run mad, and danced that dance of desperation, which was to persuade the atrocious dealers in human flesh how sound of wind and limb they were, and the bystanders how happy.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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