Methods to stop slaves escaping. See details in DESCRIPTION below.


Left. A slave who has had his leg cut off for running away. Right. An invention of a French man in Martinico,or Martinique, to prevent a slave from escaping. After a sketch in Relation d'un Voyage fait en 1695, 1696, & 1697 by Francois Froger, published Paris 1898. From Afrika, dets Opdagelse, Erobring og Kolonisation, published in Copenhagen, 1901.


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