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be roped or chained by the neck to another slave; repeated iterations would
create a string of slaves linked together. The images here (Figure 14.1) show
how widespread this simple but effective method was. Although most of these
images derive from royal monuments showing recalcitrant enemies being
brought to heel rather than everyday images of the slave trade per se, they
show the widespread diffusion of the technology of coffle-transport across the
14.1 Slave Coffles (drawings courtesy of S. Holzman).