[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves] – Historic Print
![[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves], New York : Samuel Wood, 1807. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0d/0d5167ce2af5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves], a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few prints of the period show the tools of bondage as plainly as this woodcut, which depicts an iron mask, collar, leg shackles, and spurs used to restrict enslaved people. It appeared as an illustration in *The Penitential Tyrant*, an 1807 antislavery book by Thomas Branagan, a former slave trader who became a vocal critic of the trade. Printed in New York by Samuel Wood, the book relied on concrete images like this one to make the cruelties of slavery visible to its readers.
| Created / published | New York : Samuel Wood, 1807. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1800-1810.Woodcuts 1800-1810. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The penitential tyrant / Thomas Branagan. New-York: Printed by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl-street, 1807. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Punishment & torture--1800-1810. Punishment devices--1800-1810. Shackles--1800-1810. Slavery--1800-1810. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,028 × 1,280 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117065 |
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