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Ankle shackles by Unknown — VisualArtsDB

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Ankle shackles

Ankle shackles

Ankle shackles

1700

Medium: iron
Genre: Shackles
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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businessslaveryTrans Atlantic slave tradeviolence

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Ankle restraints held enslaved men together two-by-two as they marched to the coast. Women and children were restrained by their hands and necks.

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