Africo
See also: africo and áfrico
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæfɹɪkəʊ/
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Noun
Africo (plural Africos or Africoes)
- (obsolete) A black slave.
- Febraury 27 1682, William Hedges, Diary:
- Here we met with ye Barbadoes Merchant […] James Cock, Master, laden with Salt, Mules, and Africos.
- Quoted in 2005, James A. Rawley, Stephen D. Behrendt, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (page 298)
- […] a cargo of wine, sugar, salt, and tobacco, bought in exchange “for Africoes, which she carried from the Isle of Maio” (one of the Cape Verde Islands).
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