10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COFFLE»
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coffle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Poetry. African American Studies. "COFFLE by Reginald Flood is, as the title implies, a line-up, a sequence—but not the beaten queue of the original definition, with 'animals and slaves' in a forced march.
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Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the ...
In their introduction, the Welds appealed to readers to imagine how they would
feel if they saw the wrists of their own spouses and children bound to coffle
chains. Later on, a witness described how gangs of slaves were marched
westward ...
Those not in the coffle were presumably camp slaves, associated withthe camp,
properties oftheCosian military,or perhaps, in some cases,of officers. The
presence of such women inthe campis agreat convenience tothe soldiers, as one
might ...
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: ...
At about ten o'clock the next morning, the coffle met another one of some twenty-
six people and seven loaded donkeys; the people explained that they were
returning from the valley of the river Gambia, which was not far away. Most of the
men ...
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Letter on the slave trade, to the ... members of her ...
In the present case they were put on by the blacksmith as soon as the slaves
arrived from Kancaba, and were not taken off until the morning when the coffle
departed for Gambia." He goes on to say, "Even to those who accompanied the ...
sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st bart.), 1838
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American slavery, as it is: testimony of a thousand witnesses
I count- ed 68 or 70 in a single coffle. The ' cqffle chair! is a chain fastened at one
end to the centre of the bar of a pair of hand cuffs, which are fastened to the right
wrist of one, and the left wrist of another slave, they standing abreast, and the ...
American Anti-Slavery Society, Theodore Dwight Weld, 1839
Grunthad shortened the coffle by two collars and chain lengths. Ihad putthe new
girl in Margaret's place, after Priscilla and before the Hobarts.This was the
position of "Last Girl," which, fittingly, not counting the Hobarts, she would occupy,
...
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Africa and the West: From the slave trade to conquest, 1441-1905
As all the Slatees and slaves belonging to the coffle were now assembled, either
at Kamalia, or at some of the neighbouring villages, it might have been expected
that we should have set out immediately for Gambia; but though the day of our ...
William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, Edward A. Alpers, 2010
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The English explorers, comprising details of the more famous ...
About ten o'clock' we met a coffle of twenty-six people, and seven loaded asses,
returning from the Gambia. Most of themen were armed with muskets, and had
broad belts of scarlet cloth over their shoulders, and European hats upon their ...
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The Life & Travels of Mungo Park: With Supplementary Details ...
About ten o'clock we met a coffle of twenty-six people, and seven loaded asses,
returning from the Gambia. Most of themen were armed with muskets, and had
broad belts of scarlet cloth over their shoulders, and European hats upon their ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COFFLE»
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coffle is used in the context of the following news items.
Kwame Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (2)
Evan Mwangi quotes Ayi Kwei Armah as saying: “a neo-colonial writers' coffle owned by Europeans but slyly misnamed 'African'…the series ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
Harmony in the Pews
Tenor Vanness offered another short work, Song of the Coffle, and the room was glad for his warm, resonant tone. In the middle section, the ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
Naysa Modi heads to DC for national spelling bee
The words she spelling in the local contest included catkin, omnipotent, mariachi, babushka, picaresque, kohlrabi, Tuckahoe, coffle, sachem, ... «Monroe News Star, May 15»
PM Appeals To Teachers Union
"I will also say that they benefit indirectly and this seems to have caused some sort of a stir, some sort of a coffle. because our agreement with ... «Channel 7 Daily News, May 15»
The Streets of Baltimore
Thenceforth, slavery became a self-reproducing system, coffle-chains rattling from east to west, the whip producing fantastic wealth for cotton ... «CounterPunch, May 15»
How the Slave Trade Built America
Even though Lumpkin's coffle was not, as Coffin so colorfully pronounced it, “the last slave gang seen in this Western world,” his comment ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
Dudley Takes Spelling Bee Title via Deja Vu
... pneumatic, eureka, poltergeist, kuruma, lederhosen, coffle, zephyr, symbiosis, ersatz, waterzooi, bolshevik, fraulein, facetious and mediate. «Vermillion Plain Talk, Mar 15»
Fourth-grader to represent Ouachita in National Bee
Along the way she spelled words that included catkin, omnipotent, mariachi, babushka, picaresque, kohlrabi, Tuckahoe, coffle, sachem, kibei, ... «Monroe News Star, Mar 15»
When Freedom Came to Charleston
Behind the auction cart trailed a simulated slave coffle comprising some 60 men, “tied to a rope — in imitation of the gangs who used often to ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
'The Book of Negroes' Mini-Series Episode 2
Abducted from her village in West Africa, 11-year-old Aminata Diallo is forced into a slave coffle and must endure a horrific ocean crossing. «Atlanta Black Star, Feb 15»
