Wiktionary

caboceer

English edit

Etymology edit

Related to Portuguese cabeça (“head”).

Noun edit

caboceer (plural caboceers)

  1. (historical) A native African official responsible for supplying slaves to slave traders.
    • 1973, Edgar Allan Toppin, The Black American in United States History, page 2:
      The king received goods equal to the value of six slaves and his caboceers goods equal to two slaves.
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