This sad and weeping fifty, in handcuffs and chains, was the last slave coffle that shall tread the soil of America.
It is also well known that President Jackson was a 'soul driver,' and that even so late as the year before the commencement of the last war, he bought up a coffle of slaves and drove them down to Louisiana for sale.
The other end is passed through a ring in the bolt of the next handcuffs, and the slaves being manacled thus, two and two together, walk up, and the coffle chain is passed, and they go up towards the head of the coffle.
The overseer had bought some slaves at Selma, from a drove or coffle passing through the place.
We departed from Datliboo; and about ten o'clock passed a large coffle returning from Sego, with corn hoes, mats, and other household utensils.
Before we entered the town, the names of all the people belonging to the coffle were called over, and a freeman and three slaves were found to be missing.
In the meantime the coffle was ordered to lie concealed in a cotton field near a large nitta tree, and nobody to speak except in a whisper.
His body was brought forward to a place where the front of the coffle had halted to allow the rear to come up.
As soon as we had reached the open country, the master of the salt coffle thanked us for having staid with him so long, and now desired us to ride on.
The slaves were neatly dressed in clothes from a tailor shop within the walls, and additional clothing was already stored ready to be sent with the coffle and issued to its members at the end of the southward journey.
At Columbus, Georgia, in December, 1844, for example, it was reported that a cofflefrom North Carolina had been marched back for want of buyers.
On the morning of the 16th we again set forward, accompanied by a coffle of fourteen asses, loaded with salt, bound for Sansanding.
He told me that Daman had agreed to give him half the price of a slave for his service to assist in conducting a coffle of slaves to Gambia, and that he was determined to embrace the opportunity of returning to his wife and family.
As soon as we had reached the open country the master of the salt coffle thanked us for having stayed with him so long, and now desired us to ride on.
We departed from Datliboo, and about ten o'clock passed a large coffle returning from Sego with corn-hoes, mats, and other household utensils.
Sutcliff in his Travels, speaks of meeting a coffle of slaves in Maryland, one of whom had voluntarily gone into slavery, in hopes of meeting her husband, who was a free black and had been stolen by kidnappers.
We have no Saturnalia here--unless we choose thus to designate a coffle of slaves, on the fourth of July, rattling their chains to the sound of a violin, and carrying the banner of freedom in hands loaded with irons.
In the summer of 1822, a coffle of slaves, driven through Kentucky, was met by the Rev.
When the coffle reached Washington, on their way to Georgia, the poor creature attempted to escape, by jumping from the garret window of a three-story brick tavern.
The coffle proceeded with great expedition until evening, when they arrived at Kinytakooro, a considerable town, nearly square, situated in the midst of an extensive and fertile plain.
On the 22nd of April, the coffle proceeded to a village seven miles westward.
The coffle soon after crossed the Furkoomah, a river the same size as the Wonda, and travelled so expeditiously, that Mr. Park with difficulty kept up with it.
Here one of the camels died; three others were unable to come up, and all of the camels in the coffle were much distressed, not having for several days tasted any kind of food.
Several of the inhabitants of Kamalia accompanied the coffle a short way on its progress, taking leave of their relations and friends.
Meanwhile the people of the coffle were ordered to conceal themselves in a cotton field, and no person to speak but in a whisper.
After a tedious day's journey, the coffle arrived at Satadoo, on the evening of the 11th.
The coffle then entered the town, and purchased a quantity of ground nuts, which were roasted for breakfast; and, being provided with huts, determined to rest there for the day.
The coffle then proceeded to Malacotta, where they were well entertained for three days, being each day presented with a bullock from the schoolmaster.
Did the slaves in the coffle make acquaintance, or remain strangers to one another, though they were closely neighbored night after night by their misery?
How was it with them, when the coffle worked slowly or swiftly past the door where the bread and coffee were given out, and word passed to the rear that the supply was exhausted?
All at once he fancied them actually manacled there together, two by two, a coffle of captives taken in some cruel foray, and driven to a market where no man wanted to buy.
He was brought forwards to a place where the front of the coffle had halted, to allow the rear to come up.
Accordingly when part of the coffle had passed the village, the people sallied out; and, under pretence that the coffle should not pass till the Dooty pleased, insisted on turning back the asses.
I accordingly paid at different times goods to the amount of one hundred and six bars, being not quite one-third of what a coffle of Negroes would have paid.
We had no sooner unloaded the asses at the Creek, than some of Isaaco's people, being in search of honey, unfortunately disturbed a large swarm of bees near where the coffle had halted.
Put on the loads; and part of the coffle had departed, when one of the Dooty's sons came and told us that he had seen the ass, and brought it to the village.
We did not come up to the coffle till they had halted for the night near a pool of water shaded with ground palm-trees.
We reached Dindikoo at noon; at which time it came on a tornado so rapidly, that we were forced to carry our bundles into the huts of the natives; this being the first time the coffle had entered a town since leaving Gambia.
Here when the coffle had set forwards, two of the soldiers with their bayonets, and myself with my sword, dug his grave in the wild desert; and a few branches were the only laurels which covered the tomb of the brave.
Visit to the Chief--Depredations upon the coffle by the inhabitants--Continued attacks from banditti as far as the Ba Woolima river.
It is possible, even likely, that the men thought their charge was unconscious.
She's got her eyes wide open," uttered the raucous voice on the opposite side; and Rosalie turned her eyes in that direction.
Get out of the way--we're near froze," responded Davy gruffly.
Borrow was telling of the approach of the slave-coffle from which they had rescued Orphy.
He spoke of his mistress as "a very clever lady to her servants," but since her death he had realized the danger that he was in of being run off south with a coffle gang.
As soon as we had crossed the river, Karfa gave orders that all the people of the coffle should in future keep close together, and travel in their proper station.
Before we entered the town the names of all the people belonging to the coffle were called over, and a freeman and three slaves were found to be missing.
About ten o'clock we met a coffleof twenty-six people and seven loaded asses returning from the Gambia.
About eleven o'clock, to our great joy and surprise, the freeman and slaves who had parted from the coffle the preceding night entered the town.
Accordingly about eleven o'clock the slaves were taken out of their irons, and the people of the coffle received orders to keep close together, as well to prevent the slaves from attempting to escape as on account of the wild beasts.
At length it was agreed that four people should go back a few miles to a small rivulet, where some of the coffle had stopped to drink as we passed it in the night, and that the coffle should wait for their return.
We departed from Seesukunda and passed a number of villages, at none of which was the coffle permitted to stop, although we were all very much fatigued.
In the meantime the coffle was ordered to lie concealed in a cotton-field near a large nitta-tree, and nobody to speak except in a whisper.
She had reason to believe that her master was about to sell her to a speculator, who was making up a coffle for the markets of the far South.
Several weeks after, he was taken thence and sold to a speculator, who was making up a coffle of slaves for the far South.
After stopping at the town of Kenytakooro till the 22nd of April, the cofflecommenced the journey through the Jallonka wilderness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coffle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
