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coffle

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cof·fle  (kôfl, kfl)
n.
A group of animals, prisoners, or slaves chained together in a line.
tr.v. cof·fled, cof·fling, cof·fles
To fasten together in a coffle.
[Arabic qfila, caravan, feminine active participle of qafala, to close, return; see qpl in Semitic roots.]
coffle [ˈkɒfəl]
n
(esp formerly) a line of slaves, beasts, etc., fastened together
[from Arabic qāfilah caravan]
Coffle a train of slaves or of beasts driven along together.
Examples: coffle of asses, 1799; of beasts; of horses, 1873; of slaves, 1799.
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at funerals, while chained in coffles en route to the slave market, imprisoned in dungeons at slave markets, or at traumatic farewells before transport to unknown places further South.
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Brown had seen slave coffles before, but the sight of his child and his wife being taken away "assume[s] the appearance of unusual horror" (53)--indeed, a hellish vision of "little children of many different families, which as they appeared rent the air with their shrieks and cries and vain endeavours to resist the separation which was thus forced upon them, and the cords with which they were thus bound" (53).
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The march to the Mayan capital is excruciating--each coffle has four or five men manacled by their necks to a single long iron bar so that the faltering stride of just one tortures the others--and as you watch this, you can feel Mel Gibson's talent snapping to attention.
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