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| 6 | 493 | View more quotes about surely">Surely it was not typical that they were treated to the attentions which we enjoyed, being gagged, hooded, neck-chained, manacled and caged. |
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| 6 | 490 | I then put my back against the bars. |
| 6 | 491 | I had gathered that female slaves in transit, in general, must look forward to bonds or confinements. |
| 6 | 492 | But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were chained about a movable, central bar, it fixed in place, locked, during transit. |
| 6 | 493 | Surely it was not typical that they were treated to the attentions which we enjoyed, being gagged, hooded, neck-chained, manacled and caged. |
| 6 | 494 | This, too, I supposed, might represent some sort of security measure, but, if so, it seemed to me, of a depth and degree which must be unusual. |
| 6 | 495 | Perhaps, on the other hand, it had to do, simply, with our being new slaves. |
| 6 | 496 | New slaves are often treated with great harshness. |