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Shackles

Iron restraints were commonly used on the hands and feet of enslaved people being moved in the international and domestic slave trades.

Shackles

Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection

Shackles.

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Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection
Date 1829–1849
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