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| 21 | 21 | The usual coffling View more quotes about order">order, for those whom it might interest, is not from front to rear, as was being done here, girls being selected almost randomly to be added to the rope, but from rear to front, the slaves keeping their eyes forward. |
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| 21 | 18 | Seen in a field, for example, free men will commonly investigate the sight of such a slave, and, if she is not known to them, set upon her, apprehend her, and demand an accounting. |
| 21 | 19 | An attendant knotted a rope about her left ankle. |
| 21 | 20 | It went to the girl before her, about whose ankle it was already knotted, and would be extended behind her, to fasten the next three slaves in the ankle coffle, as she was, each such coffle consisting of ten slaves. |
| 21 | 21 | The usual coffling order, for those whom it might interest, is not from front to rear, as was being done here, girls being selected almost randomly to be added to the rope, but from rear to front, the slaves keeping their eyes forward. |
| 21 | 22 | This is particularly the case when chains and collars, or wrist rings, or ankle rings, are used. |
| 21 | 23 | In this way the slave does not see the device until it is upon her, and then, of course, it is too late; she is locked within it. |
| 21 | 24 | She knows, of course, that this is going to be done. |