(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Pair of Middle Passage Slave Shackle

Sale 2171 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 1,800

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Pair of Middle Passage Slave Shackles. Wrought-iron, 13x5 inches; pitting and oxidization consistent with age. Np, late 18th to early 19th century

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A pair of shackles of the sort used during the cruel "Middle Passage" from Africa to the Americas. Images of such shackles appear in numerous early abolitionist books and tracts. For specific examples see: "An Abstract of the Evidence," London 1791; Lydia Maria Child''s "Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans," Boston, 1833; and Lorenzo Dow, "Slave Ships and Slaving," Massachusetts, 1927.