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Image Reference
goree
Source
David and Charles Livingstone, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 (London, 1865, p. 125)
Comments
Caption: "Goree, or Slave-Stick." Livingstone does not appear to describe this "slave stick," but a French naval officer, in the Angola region in the late eighteenth century, describes how slave traders used "a forked branch which opens exactly to the size of a neck so the head can't pass through it. The forked branch is pierced with two holes so that an iron pin comes across the neck of the slave . . . so that the smallest movement is sufficient to stop him and even to strangle him" (see LCP-12 on this website; also, PRO-4, Mariners09). The term "Goree" refers to Goree Island (in present-day Senegal), from which French slavers transported captured Africans.
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