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Walter Johnson suggests that the songs enslaved people sang on coffles were memorials to the communities that the slave trade destroyed; see Johnson, Soul by Soul, 69.
From Slate • Jun. 17, 2015
He watched her move as she had watched the coffles trudge past Randall.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Occasionally, other coffles of slaves would join their group.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
Caesar and his family joined the march of coffles, his father going one way, his mother another, and Caesar to his own destiny.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The coffles came from distances ranging to a thousand miles or more, on rivers and paths whose shore ends the European traders could see but did not find inviting.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell
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