Circa 1860M
Iron, 7 ½ cm diameter, 7 ½ cm long chain
Found in the cellar of an old plantation house (‘Woodlawn’) near Richmond, Virginia. These would have almost certainly been used as an instrument of punishment on the plantation.
©The American Museum in Britain (Bath, UK)
Accession reference: The American Museum in Britain (Bath, UK), 1969.17
Themes
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Resistance and Rebellion
Understand how the enslaved actively resisted and rebelled at every stage of oppression including uprisings on board ship, forming their own communities and maintaining cultural heritage.
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Plantation Conditions
Understand the harshness of daily life on the plantations, the oppression used to exert control, and the profits…