A coffle, sometimes called a platoon or a drove, was a group of enslaved people chained together and marched from one place to another by owners or slave...

buying enslaved people in Virginia and Maryland, before marching them in coffles to sale at Natchez, Mississippi. He introduced John Armfield to the slave...

Noble's painting inspired by Margaret Garner, an interstate slave trade coffle from Virginia to Tennessee, Omar ibn Said (c. 1850), Dolly Johnson (c. 1861)...

new owners, or a combination of the two. They were moved in groups in a coffle. This meant that people were chained together with iron rings around their...

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A coffle of slaves being driven on foot from Staunton, Virginia to Tennessee in 1850....

were selectively constructed or brought into tension in scenes like the coffle, coerced performances of slave leisure on the plantation, and the popular...

usually full." Brown recalled being surprised by the number of people per coffle delivered by slave speculators connected with Freeman, including "Williams...

enslaved people by ocean-going ship between the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Coffle: Group of enslaved people in a chain-gang for overland shipment on foot...

John Kirby by enslaved men they were transporting overland to Georgia in a coffle." The Kirbys had been to the slave markets of Baltimore (one enslaved person...