Which preposition to use with coffles
I have seen HUNDREDS of droves and chain-coffles of this description, and every coffle was a scene of misery and wo, of tears and brokenness of heart.
We have heard of the internal slave tradethe pangs of separationthe slave ship with its "cargo of despair" bound for the New-Orleans marketthe weary journey of the chained Coffle to the cotton country.
She had reason to believe that her master was about to sell her to a speculator, who was making up a coffle for the markets of the far South.
At Columbus, Georgia, in December, 1844, for example, it was reported that a coffle from North Carolina had been marched back for want of buyers.[40] But losses of this sort were more than offset in the long run by the upward trend of prices which was in effect throughout the most of the ante-bellum period.
Mungo Park when exploring the hinterland of this coast in 1795-1797, traveling incidentally with a slave coffle on part of his journey, estimated that in the Niger Valley generally the slaves outnumbered the free by three to one.