assientist

plural assientists · alternative Assientist

1. historicalA shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
2. historicalOne of the parties to the Assiento contract.

   as England gained the assiento , it was agreed that the agents of the assientists might enter all the ports of Spanish America

   1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC