This coffle of enslaved men and women were linked together by rope or chain around their necks. Based on observations made in the Great Lakes region in October 1873.

Verney Lovett Cameron, Across Africa (New York, 1877), p. 124.

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fettered

Africa--Great Lakes

"Manner of Fettering Slaves", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 25, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2622