English
recaptive
From re- + captive?
Today it means
noun A slave freed by the British Royal Navy from a slave ship and brought to Freetown, now Sierra Leone's capital city.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “recaptive”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / recaptive