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  • Enslavement and the Middle Passage
  • Cowrie headdress
  • 'A Liverpool Slave Ship' by William Jackson
  • Skin covered capmasks
  • Coffle
  • Wedgwood bowl
  • Shackles
  • 'Breaking free' figure
  • Blunderbuss
  • 'Watt' by William Jackson

Shackles

Wrought iron, 18th century

Accession number 56.24.135

leg irons

These leg irons are on display in the Middle Passage gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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