Collection Highlights
Empire State Building, N.Y.C.
1940
1940.978
Oil on canvas
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Slave shackles
Object name
Slave shackles
Date
ca. 1866
Medium
Steel
Dimensions
Overall: 4 1/4 x 23 x 1/4 in. ( 10.8 x 58.4 x 0.6 cm )
Description
Pair of steel ankle shackles; round cuffs with a soldered peg closure; four oval chain links attach the two cuffs.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Carroll Beckwith
Object Number
1921.20
Gallery Label
According to a letter that accompanied these shackles upon their donation to the Historical Society in 1921, they were cut off teenage slave Mary Horn of Americus, Georgia, by Colonel William W. Badger of the 176th Regiment New York Volunteers, more than a year after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Ma