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English: A coffle (otherwise known as a chain gang). A long procession of people, almost all black, are marching barefoot and chained together at their wrists. At the front are two fiddlers, a mounted rider, and another man. Two other men ride beside the procession, holding whips. One of the prisoners is holding a large American flag.
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Source Engraving from the anonymous anti-slavery book The suppressed book about slavery! published by Carleton, New York, 1864.
Author Van Ingen Snyder

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A chain gang.

1 January 1864Gregorian

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