3069A WROUGHT IRON SLAVE SHACKLES.

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This item SOLD at 2025 Aug 10 @ 11:05UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT
Category Firearms & Military
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 1,000.00 USD
Estimated at 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
Purchased by consignor from Virginia estate. About 13.5" rod and about 4" x 3" ankle looped ankle restraints. A set of shackles of the type used in the Middle Passage slave route from Africa to the Americas in the 18th century. Similar shackles are illustrated in the 1833 book “An Appeal in Behalf of that Class of Americans Called Africans” by Miss Lydia Child, Boston, she notes that these shackles were used to secure the ankles of adjacent slaves. "Yet even thus secured, they do often jump into the sea, and wave their hands in triumph at the approach of death”. CONDITION: iron patina, treated with paste wax by consignor. (02-23912/JS). NON-GUN. $2,000-4,000.