slave-coffle

I knew it because I'd been flogged over it in the slave-coffle, and I had to gulp down my fears as we approached each bend - suppose we met someone, in this place where we couldn't take to our heels, where to stray ten yards from the path would be certain death by wandering starvation?

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on—as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten’d together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains;

Salut au Monde 1900

I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves

Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

IN the slave-coffle were about twenty men, with three women -- Sally, the young girl

Aunt Sally: or, The Cross the Way of Freedom. A Narrative of the Slave-life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams, of Detroit, Michigan Isaac Williams 1858

Now, here, right next to our camp, a slave-coffle encamped!

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I 1856

He related the scene which he had lately witnessed in the slave-coffle.

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1856

The horrors and sorrows of the slave-coffle were a sealed book to Nina and Anne Clayton.

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1856

Thou hast one more triumph here in the wilderness, in the slave-coffle, and thou comest to bind up the broken-hearted.

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I 1856

I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on -- as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fastened together with wrist - chains and ankle-chains;

Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855