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Definition of Coffles
1. coffle [v] - See also: coffle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffles
Literary usage of Coffles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... and cowhides; it has organized unnumbered slave-coffles, clanking their chains
and filing in mournful march through this land, of liberty. ..."
2. An Inquiry Into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization and by William Jay (1837)
"Slave-coffles are formed at the prisons in the District, and thence set off on their
... These coffles pass the very capitol in which are assembled the ..."
3. Letters of Lydia Maria Child by Lydia Maria Francis Child, John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips (1882)
"in whose highways coffles of human chattels, chained and manacled, are frequently
... And the seal and the coffles are both looked upon by other chattels, ..."
4. Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery by William Jay (1853)
"Slave-coffles are formed at the prisons in the District, and thence set off on their
... These coffles pass the very Capitol in which are assembled the ..."
5. Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America by Theodore Dwight Weld, American Anti-Slavery Society, British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (1841)
"... gather fresh supplies for the slave-prisons and slave-ships; and also of
traders of limited capital, who buy up small gangs and drive their own coffles. ..."
6. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground by Levi Coffin (1880)
"Louisville was the headquarters in Kentucky for slave-traders, buying negroes
for the Southern market, and coffles were often brought in from the ..."
7. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1918)
"Overland coffles were occasionally encountered and described by travelers. ...
It resembled one of the coffles spoken of by Mungo Park, except that they had ..."
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