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The Taking: The Coffle - Stolen in Chains
Last episode named the sellers. This one walks the road they walked: the coffle — the chained line marched from Africa's inland country to the sea. Mr. Black History opens on the Scottish traveler Mungo Park, who met a coffle of seventy people in 1797 — seven to a rope of twisted bullock hide, a musket between every seven — then works the irons (paired fetters at Kamalia, the three-foot log bolted to the ankle of anyone who resisted, the forked pole at Luanda), the roads (seven weeks from Kamalia to the Gambia, canoe journeys down Biafra's rivers, Angola's months-long hauls from beyond the…
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