![]() ![]() The contractor (asientista) agreed to pay a certain amount of money to the crown for the monopoly and to deliver a stipulated number of male and female slaves for sale in the American markets.īosun - The officer on the ship in charge of the deck crew, rigging and anchors, also called a ‘boatswain’.īoucan - Wooden frame for smoking meat, originally from Tupi tribe.īrethren of the Coast - A loose coalition of pirates and privateers commonly known as buccaneers and active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.īrig (Brigantine) - A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. GlossaryĪble (able-bodied) Seaman - A capable and good sailor.Īrticles of Agreement, A Pirate Code, Pirate Codex, Pirate Articles - The rules a pirate must follow while on a ship.Īsiento - Between the early 16th and the mid-18th century, an agreement between the Spanish crown and a private person or another sovereign power by which the latter was granted a monopoly in supplying African slaves for the Spanish colonies in the Americas. ![]() I would like to thank my supervisor, William Eddleston, Ph.D., for his kind help, patience and the time he dedicated to my work. ![]()
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