Abbott’s Modern Coffle Display of Power

<p>The historical reference is clear even if the word, coffle, is not. I find this shipping of minorities around the country very like a coffle, a slavery practice where millions of black Americans were linked in chains and forced march to plantations for hundreds of years, all the way up until 1860.</p> <p>Obviously that practice continued with the chain gangs of convict leasing into the 20th century when southern states rented out black Americans through state convicts. Black men marched around counties and states from just after the Civil War to the 1910s or so, when they probably were moved not by walking but by vehicle or in the back of a prison trailer pulled by horses to their worksite they were rented out to.</p> <p><a href="https://brenkelly1970.medium.com/abbotts-modern-coffle-display-of-power-c6ff1ba3b913"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>