 ... the stoutest and strongest, were very differently caparisoned. A strong iron collar was closely fitted by means of a padlock round each of our necks. A chain of iron, about a hundred feet in length, was passed through the hasp of each padlock, except...  Fifty Years in Chains - Page 13by Charles Ball - 1860 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 156 pages
...was passed through the hasp of each padlock, except at the two ends, where the hasps of the padlocks passed through a link of the chain. In addition to...and their wearers in pairs. In this manner we were chaiaed alternately by the right and left hand; and the poor man to whom I was thus ironed, wept like... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 176 pages
...was passe I through the hasp of each padlock, except at the two ends, where the hasps of the padlocks passed through a link of the chain. In addition to...this, we were handcuffed in pairs, with iron staples und bol;s, with a short chain, about a foot long, uniting the handcuffs and their wearers in pairs.... | |
 | Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - Plantation life - 1909 - 396 pages
...was passed through the hasp of each padlock, except at the two ends, where the hasps of the padlocks passed through a link of the chain. In addition to...were chained alternately by the right and left hand. . . We were soon on the south side of the river, and taking up our line of march, we travelled about... | |
 | John Rogers Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, John Bertram Andrews - Labor - 1910 - 394 pages
...was passed through the hasp of each padlock, except at the two ends, where the hasps of the padlocks passed through a link of the chain. In addition to...were chained alternately by the right and left hand. . . We were soon on the south side of the river, and taking up our line of march, we travelled about... | |
 | Allan Kulikoff - Business & Economics - 1992 - 366 pages
...more severe restraint. "A strong iron collar was closely fitted . . . round each of our necks. ... In addition to this, we were handcuffed in pairs, with iron staples and bolts, with a short chain, a foot long, uniting the handcuffs and their wearers in pairs." They marched rapidly during the day... | |
 | Eric L. Wilson - African American men in literature - 1994 - 68 pages
...and a chain of iron about a hundred feet in length which was passed through the hasp of each padlock. In addition to this, we were handcuffed in pairs,...bolts, with a short chain about a foot long uniting the men alternately by the right and left hand; the poor man to whom I was thus chained wept like an infant... | |
 | Don Harrison Doyle - History - 2001 - 492 pages
...their necks. On the men a "strong iron collar was closely fitted . . . round each of our necks. ... In addition to this, we were handcuffed in pairs, with iron staples and bolts, with a short chain, a foot long, uniting the handcuffs and their wearers in pairs. " 13 The slaves dreaded the journey,... | |
 | Walter Wilson Jennings - United States - 1926 - 850 pages
...of the padlocks passed so From Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. II, 57, 58. through a link of the chain. In addition to this,...were chained alternately by the right and left hand. . . .2l Treatment on such trips was often harsh. At night, after the usual meal of mush, the group... | |
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