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1. Glass beads

Glass beads
Date:
1700 and 1799
Description:
Eight glass beads uncovered near McLeod Plantation in James Island, South Carolina.

2. Leg shackles

Leg shackles
Date:
1700
Description:
Set of iron leg shackles used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade from Africa to North America. The chains that join each cuff contain incised designs.

3. Leg shackles

Leg shackles
Date:
1700
Description:
Set of iron leg shackles used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade from Africa to North America. The chains that join each cuff contain incised designs.

4. Leg shackles

Leg shackles
Date:
1700
Description:
Set of iron leg shackles used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade from Africa to North America. The chains that join each cuff contain incised designs resembling ferns.

5. Wrist shackles

Wrist shackles
Date:
1700
Description:
Set of iron wrist shackles; two U-shaped cuffs with large iron pin enclosures. Leather strap attached to one link. Closed cuff has a pin lock.

6. Der Joden Biddekleed, en Gedenk-Ceedels aan Hoofd en Hand

Der Joden Biddekleed, en Gedenk-Ceedels aan Hoofd en Hand
Date:
1700
Description:
Black-and-white etching depicting a Jewish man wearing a tallis (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries). He stands in front of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Text excerpted from Deuteronomy 6:8-9: "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates." Etching by Jan Luyken. From Mosaize historie der Hebreeuwse kerke, Volume 3, by Willem Goeree, published Amsterdam: Willem and David Goeree.