assientoasienton.
/əˈsjɛntəʊ//asɪˈɛntəʊ/ ‘A contract, or conuention between the king of Spain and other powers, for furnishing the Spanish dominions in America with negro slaves’ (Johnson). spec. That made between Great Britain and Spain at the peace of Utrecht in 1713.
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1714 London Gaz. No. 5213/3 The Assiento, or Contract for allowing the Subjects of Great Britain the Liberty of Importing Negroes into the Spanish America.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xlii. 555 The English slave-trade began to attain its great activity after the assiento treaty.
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