Definition of Assiento. Meaning of Assiento. Synonyms of Assiento

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Definition of Assiento

Assiento
Assiento As`si*en"to, n. [Sp. asiento seat, contract or agreement, fr. asentar to place on a chair, to adjust, to make an agreement; a (L. ad) + sentar, a participial verb; as if there were a L. sedentare to cause to sit, fr. sedens, sedentis, p. pr. of sed?re to sit.] A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

Meaning of Assiento from wikipedia

- handelingen en directie van Pedro van Belle omtrent den slavenhandel, ofwel het ****iento de Negros ... Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern...
- English. The Compagnie de l'****iento had been founded in 1701 and held the "****iento", a monopoly on the provision of slaves to Spanish colonies. The Treaty...
- following the War of Spanish Succession, which gave the United Kingdom an ****iento to supply slaves and engage in limited trade in other goods in the region...
- following the War of Spanish Succession, which gave the United Kingdom an ****iento to trade, and to sell slaves in the region for thirty years. In fact the...
- Time. Retrieved 1 February 2021. Kesler, C.K. (1 January 1928). "Het ****iento". New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 9 (1): 152–160. doi:10...
- Commons, London, 1747. Considerations on the Revival of the Royal-British ****iento, between his Catholic Majesty and the … South-Sea Company. With an … attempt...
- Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo (ed.). Lo sucedido en el ****iento de la primera piedra del Colegio Real del Espiritu Santo de la Compañia...
- Séphiha, op. cit. La forma Mair se recoge por Jewish Encyclopedia. Dado ****iento que al día siguiente se baptizaría con solemnidad, partiose de sus atezas...
- Woodbridge, judge-advocate of Barbados and director-general of the Royal ****iento Company, who died on 11 February 1721, and whose portrait was painted by...
- month she returned from Porto Bello with 100,000 pieces of eight from the ****iento. In May 1693 the Council of Jamaica ordered the careening of the Mordaunt...