Method of Fastening Slaves

Description

Mary Ann Serrett Barber wrote her book about the farming village, Osiele, to the east of Abeokuta. She never traveled to West Africa. She compiled her materials from the journals and letters of Henry Townsend, who was based at Abeokuta between 1846 and 1867; and Charles Andrew Gollmer who was based there between 1845 and 1861. They worked closely with Samuel Ajayi Crowther. This engraving is a depiction of a manner in which to secure an enslaved individual by tying the wrist tight to the neck. Note the three scars on the cheeks, possibly denoting Oyo affiliation.

See Barber, Mary Ann Serrett, d. 1864. Oshielle, Or, Village Life In the Yoruba Country: From the Journals And Letters of a Catechist There, Describing the Rise of a Christian Church In an African Village. London: J. Nisbet and co., 1857.

Citation

"Method of Fastening Slaves", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed December 3, 2023, http://yorubadiaspora.org/s/yorubadiaspora/item/3448
Mary Ann Serrett Barber wrote her book about the farming village, Osiele, to the east of Abeokuta. She never traveled to West Africa. She compiled her materials from the journals and letters of Henry Townsend, who was based at Abeokuta between 1846 and 1867; and Charles Andrew Gollmer who was based there between 1845 and 1861. They worked closely with Samuel Ajayi Crowther. This engraving is a depiction of a manner in which to secure an enslaved individual by tying the wrist tight to the neck. Note the three scars on the cheeks, possibly denoting Oyo affiliation. See Barber, Mary Ann Serrett, d. 1864. Oshielle, Or, Village Life In the Yoruba Country: From the Journals And Letters of a Catechist There, Describing the Rise of a Christian Church In an African Village. London: J. Nisbet and co., 1857.
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