• (n.) 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.
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As`si·en'to noun [ Spanish
asiento seat, contract or agreement, from
asentar to place on a chair, to adjust, to make an agreement;
a (L.
ad ) +
sentar , a participial verb; as if there were a Latin
sedentare to cause to sit, from
sedens ,
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Assiento was the permission of the Spanish government to a foreign nation to import negro slaves from Africa into the Spanish colonies in America, for a limited time, on payment of certain duties. It was accorded to the Netherlands about 1552, to the Genoese in 1580, and to the French Guinea Company (afterwards the Assiento Company) in 1702. In 171...
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