Iron shackles

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Iron shackles or handcuffs that are locked together. The shackles are composed of two iron circles each with a flat top for opening and closing the cuffs. The metal has rusted together so they can no longer be opened. The bottom of the circle has a half circle extension with a hole in the center that each is attached to two iron circles. The iron circles are connected by a solid rectangular piece of iron.

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