bozal

plural bozals

1. historicalA (black) slave recently brought to a (European, especially Spanish) colony from Africa.
2. alternativeuncommonAlternative form of bosal (“noseband on a horse”).

   The more tightly these nosebands are attached, the more the horse is likely to raise his head and nose. For ordinary pleasure riding, attach this equipment to allow one or two fingers sideways between the bozal and the underside of the jaw.

   2005, Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses: Gentle, humane methods for training and riding gaited pleasure horses, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 54

1. historicalnot comparableOf a slave, recently brought to a colony from Africa.

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of bozal.

   They were libelled for salvage by the officers who took them up, and libelled as property by the miscreants called Spanish gentlemen who had bought them in Cuba, knowing them to be Bozal negroes fresh from Africa.

   1843, J. F. Johnson, Proceedings of the General Anti-Slavery Convention, page 122

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   I was assured that the labour of eight emancipated Africans was considered equal to that of twelve apprenticed labourers born in the colony; and on the same principle, a Bozal African, fresh from one of the market places of the Havana, commands an average price of twenty-four ounces of gold when sold by retail

   1840, David Turnbull, Travles in the West: Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade, pages 62–63

plural Bozals

1. Alternative letter-case form of bozal.

   it was occasioned by the loss of so many valuable Bozals, or newly imported Africans

   1853, R. R. Madden, The Island of Cuba: Its Resources, Progress, and Prospects, page 234