Implements Used by Slave-Traders

"Implements Used by Slave-Traders" - Click on the image to expand its view.

Slave traders used varying inhuman devices to control the people they viewed as "live cargo." 

This image, from The Story of the Sea (volume 2) depicts a wooden neck yoke (called a "Goree"), a whip, manacles, chains, leg fetters, and a "helmet used for gagging slaves, with pieces of iron to force tongue down."

Credits

From Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, ed., The Story of the Sea (London, 1895-96), vol. 2, p. 445. Courtesy of The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. 

Digitized image, courtesy slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.