Ankle shackles
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Ankle shackles

Unidentified · 1700-1850

iron
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

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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