Meaning of coffle | Babel Free

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A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.

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“The people of the coffle spent the day in drying such articles as were wet⟳, and in cleaning ten pairs of ornamented pistols with shea-butter.”

“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,”

“If the explorer could make⟳ Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast.”

“Once all experience⟳ is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can break⟳ from the coffle and choose⟳ freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images hardly distinguishable from real-life images[…]”

“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.”

“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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