coffle
Chained prisoner line
A coffle is a group of enslaved people or animals chained or roped together in a line for transport.
The word appears most often in historical accounts of the Atlantic slave trade and the American domestic slave trade: The coffle of captives stretched for half a mile along the road.
As a verb, to coffle is to chain people together in this way.
Commerce in human beings
- Middle PassageTransatlantic slave trade crossing
- auctionCompetitive public sale
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- chattelMovable personal property
bondage · human trafficking · overseer · shackles · manacles · fetters · chains · yoke
slave trade
Commerce in human beings
- Middle PassageTransatlantic slave trade crossing
- auctionCompetitive public sale
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
chattel · bondage · human trafficking · overseer · shackles · manacles · fetters · chains · yoke · collar
shackles
Metal bonds for prisoners
- manaclesWrist shackles for prisoners
- fettersAnkle restraints, often metal
- ironsRestraints or golf clubs
chains · handcuffs · leg irons · yoke · collar · tether · binding · links · hobble · trammels
procession
Formal moving line
trek · trudge · forced march · file · line · chained · tethered · driven · herded · trail
cofflefreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · emancipation · liberation · manumission · abolition
cofflefree passage
Unhindered right to travel
free movement · pilgrimage · exodus · procession · caravan