Slave Coffle: Chained March Across African Landscape

Powerful historical illustration depicting enslaved Africans chained together in a coffle, being marched across the African landscape toward coastal slave ports. The detailed engraving shows a line of men bound together, walking through a dramatic landscape with cliffs and sparse vegetation, their bodies bearing the marks of captivity and suffering. This stark black and white illustration captures the desolation and brutality of the forced marches that were the first stage of the transatlantic slave trade. African people were kidnapped from their homes and villages, chained together, and forced to walk sometimes hundreds of miles to the coast where slave ships waited. Many died along the way from exhaustion, starvation, or violence. The barren landscape emphasizes the isolation and hopelessness of their situation. Those who survived these death marches faced the horrors of the Middle Passage and a lifetime of bondage in the Americas. A haunting document of slavery's African origins and the beginning of an unimaginable journey of suffering, available in three sizes with your choice of black or silver aluminum frame.