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I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fastened together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 173:
If the explorer could make Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast.
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2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 323:
Her litter came to a sudden halt at the cross street, to allow a coffle of slaves to shuffle across her path, urged along by the crack of an overseer's lash.
2011 February 18, Susan Eva O'Donovan, “William Webb's World”, in New York Times:
It dominated late-night dinner conversation; it traveled along with marching columns of chained slaves, the infamous coffle lines that remain the iconic face of the domestic slave trade.
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