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Sample Noel Pittman Collection

Iron, ca. 1800
Crab-style Runaway Shackles.

Noisy rattling beads in these shackles (styled like African dance anklets) were designed to help slave catchers locate fugitives. Clever runaways inserted mud pies to muffle the sound.

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