Slave coffle

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This mid-nineteenth century engraving is probably associated with David Livingston's expeditions to East Africa, partly to document and help suppress the slave trade there. Most of the men are placed in "Goree sticks", with their necks held in a Y-shaped tree branch by an iron bolt or leather strap.

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