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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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The parallel is striking between the swelling African slave trade, where one tribal society made war on another in order to send slave coffles westward to the awaiting ships on the east side of the Atlantic, and the Indian slave trade where one Indian society made war on another in order to send slaves eastward to the awaiting ships on the west side of the Atlantic.
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