assiento

These two men had been granted the assiento in Spain, that is, the privilege of furnishing the Spanish colonies with Negro slaves.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

This fatal stroke to the British trade was in some measure remedied by the assiento contract, concluded at Madrid in 1722.

A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

This contract was technically called in those days an _assiento_.

American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1899

The assiento -- the treaty giving her exclusive right to supply the

The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890

Negotiations were set on foot, but their only result was the _assiento_ contract, or the privilege of supplying the colonies with negroes for thirty years, and of sending once a year a vessel, limited both as to tonnage and value of cargo, to trade with Mexico, Peru, or Chili.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

Spain is not mentioned, but France answers for them, and that they shall give us a new assiento.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757

African company, and for the emoluments expected from the assiento contract), to fix upon America a vast negro population, torn from their homes and brought hither by force.

History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870

[Footnote 1: 'Bien como quien se engendrò en una carcel, donde toda incomodidad tiene su assiento, y todo triste ruido hace su habitacion.'

Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803