caboceer
English
Etymology
Related to Portuguese cabeça (“head”).
Noun
caboceer (plural caboceers)
- (historical) A native African official responsible for supplying slaves to slave traders.
- 1973, Edgar Allan Toppin, The Black American in United States History (page 2)
- The king received goods equal to the value of six slaves and his caboceers goods equal to two slaves.
- 1973, Edgar Allan Toppin, The Black American in United States History (page 2)