National Museum of African American History and Culture
Set of wrought iron leg shackles
Unidentified · before 1863
A set of wrought iron leg shackles consisting of an iron bolt with a pair of loops slid onto it through a hole in each end of the loop. One end of the bar is fixed closed by an integral metal flange large enough to prevent the loops from being removed. The other end of the bar, which ends in an eye, is locked by a large lock washer inserted upon application of the shackles around the legs.
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