Africo

See also: africo and áfrico

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• IPA^(key): /ˈæfɹɪkəʊ/

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Noun

Africo (plural Africos or Africoes)

1. (obsolete) A black slave.
   • Febraury 27 1682, William Hedges, Diary:

     Here we met with ye Barbadoes Merchant […] James Cock, Master, laden with Salt, Mules, and Africos.

   • Quoted in 2005, James A. Rawley, Stephen D. Behrendt, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (page 298)

     […] a cargo of wine, sugar, salt, and tobacco, bought in exchange “for Africoes, which she carried from the Isle of Maio” (one of the Cape Verde Islands).