Description

Top half of the image shows two male slaves who are joined together by a log-yoke that fits around their necks and rests on their shoulders. Bottom half shows a slave in a log-yoke that takes the form of an inverted V and hangs from his neck by a piece of rope.; Illustration in Thomas Branagan's Penitential Tyrant (New York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807) p. 268.; Engraving attributed to Alexander Anderson.; Accompanied by the following text: "The manner of yoking the slaves by the Mandingoes, or African slave merchants, who usually march annually in eight or ten parties, from the river Gambia to Bambarra; each party having from one hundred to one hundred and fifty slaves. The Log-Yokes are made of the roots of trees, so heavy as to make it extremely difficult for the persons who wear them to walk, much more to escape or run away. Where the roads lie through woods, the captives are made to travel several hundred miles with logs hung from their necks, as described in the plates."

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