Crossword-Solution: ASIENTO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Prior to the Asiento, the British had been forbidden to trade with the Spanish possessions in America, and the French had monopolized the sale of slaves to the Spanish colonies.

The chief contract for trade in Negroes was the celebrated "Asiento" or agreement of the King of Spain to the importation of slaves into Spanish domains.

This Asiento of 1713 was an agreement between England and Spain by which the latter granted the former a monopoly of the Spanish colonial slave trade for thirty years, and England engaged to supply the colonies within that time with at least one hundred and forty-four thousand slaves at the rate of forty-eight hundred per year.

After the Asiento of 1713 this number rose to 30,000 annually, and before the Revolutionary War it had reached at least 40,000 and perhaps 100,000 slaves a year.

Rosarito vióse de súbito dominada por tan viva sensibilidad, que la escasa energía de su cuerpo no pudo corresponder a la excitación de su espíritu, y desfalleciendo, dejóse caer sobre una piedra que hacía las veces de asiento en aquellos amenos lugares.