Was doing some research and came upon this website from Virginia.edu with images that we as a people forget and so in 2006 still wait to be saved by the white messiah.
New link: http://www.slaveryimages.org/search.html
Click on "explore the collection" in the column to the left.
The approximately 1,200 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
A front and profile view of an African's head, with the mouth-piece and necklace, the hooks round which are placed to prevent an escapee when pursued in the woods, and to hinder them from laying down the head to procure rest.
At A [see letter over mouth of figure on the right] is a flat iron which goes into the mouth, and so effectually keeps down the tongue, that nothing can be swallowed, not even the saliva, a passage for which is made through holes in the mouth-plate."
On the lower right is an enlarged view of this mouth piece which "when long worn, becomes so heated as frequently to bring off the skin along with it." The lower left shows leg shackles used on the slave ships; also, "spurs used on some plantations in Antigua" (placed on the legs to prevent slaves from absconding).[/font][/font]
"Chatiment des Esclaves, Brasil" (Punishment of Slaves)
Fig 1, AA represents two separate pieces of wood, which in the Fig. 2, 3 are made fast to the necks of two Negroes by means of cords, which are composed of the roots of trees, and are in use in those countries. Many of the Negroes were accustomed to be driven before the Mundingoes, one by one, each with this instrument on his neck. It was found convenient for two reasons: First, because of the roads, which lay through the woods in these parts, were often so narrow, as not to admit three or four persons to walk abreast; Secondly, Because it was an insuperable obstacle to an escape, for the trees were so close to each other in the forests, as not to suffer any person to go between them, who had such an incumbrance on his neck. The second manner of conducting them is described in the same plate. Fig. 4 represents an instrument, which is of wood. Within the crutches of this instrument, which are at each end of it, are placed the necks of two Negroes in Fig. 5, which are confined in its extremities XX by means of certain cords, which are in use in that part of the world. Thus confined, two at a time, others of the Negroes, who were annually brought from Bambara to Galam are said to have travelled"
"The third way [of bringing slaves from the interior to the coast for sale to the French Senegal Company] is described in the plate No. 3. In Fig. 1, B represents a large log of wood, X a crutch at one end of it, and A a twisted cord to which it is fastened at the other. This log is made fast to a Negro's neck in Fig. 2 (see other image of yokes from Clarkson on this website). It is reported to be so heavy and unmanageable that it is extremely difficult for the person who wears it to walk, much less to escape or run away. In travelling it is said to be necessary to lift up the log, that is thus fastened to the neck of each, and to place the crutch of it on the shoulder of every preceding slave. . . . In this way then many of the Negro slaves from Bambara to Galam have been made to travel. . . . When it has been necessary to halt, the crutch has been taken from the shoulders of each, and the person, who has worn it, has remained . . . unable to walk or manage himself as before, and has become almost as secure, as if he had been chained to the spot in which he had been made to halt. When it has been thought necessary to proceed, the log has again been put on the neck of every preceding slave" (pp. 36-37).
Caption, "Feitors corrigeant des Negres" (plantation overseers punishing blacks). Foreground, European whipping black on ground with arms and legs lashed together; background, black tied to tree being lashed by another black.
The part some whites don't get is that this was in 1807 i.e. 2 to 3 generations away.
While we talk about Sadaam, Lebanon etc...., we have to remember that we still have a lot of work to do. A lot of the youth in this generation take how far we have come for granted.........
Be easy.
Peace.
New link: http://www.slaveryimages.org/search.html
Click on "explore the collection" in the column to the left.
The approximately 1,200 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
A front and profile view of an African's head, with the mouth-piece and necklace, the hooks round which are placed to prevent an escapee when pursued in the woods, and to hinder them from laying down the head to procure rest.
At A [see letter over mouth of figure on the right] is a flat iron which goes into the mouth, and so effectually keeps down the tongue, that nothing can be swallowed, not even the saliva, a passage for which is made through holes in the mouth-plate."
On the lower right is an enlarged view of this mouth piece which "when long worn, becomes so heated as frequently to bring off the skin along with it." The lower left shows leg shackles used on the slave ships; also, "spurs used on some plantations in Antigua" (placed on the legs to prevent slaves from absconding).[/font][/font]
"Chatiment des Esclaves, Brasil" (Punishment of Slaves)
Fig 1, AA represents two separate pieces of wood, which in the Fig. 2, 3 are made fast to the necks of two Negroes by means of cords, which are composed of the roots of trees, and are in use in those countries. Many of the Negroes were accustomed to be driven before the Mundingoes, one by one, each with this instrument on his neck. It was found convenient for two reasons: First, because of the roads, which lay through the woods in these parts, were often so narrow, as not to admit three or four persons to walk abreast; Secondly, Because it was an insuperable obstacle to an escape, for the trees were so close to each other in the forests, as not to suffer any person to go between them, who had such an incumbrance on his neck. The second manner of conducting them is described in the same plate. Fig. 4 represents an instrument, which is of wood. Within the crutches of this instrument, which are at each end of it, are placed the necks of two Negroes in Fig. 5, which are confined in its extremities XX by means of certain cords, which are in use in that part of the world. Thus confined, two at a time, others of the Negroes, who were annually brought from Bambara to Galam are said to have travelled"
"The third way [of bringing slaves from the interior to the coast for sale to the French Senegal Company] is described in the plate No. 3. In Fig. 1, B represents a large log of wood, X a crutch at one end of it, and A a twisted cord to which it is fastened at the other. This log is made fast to a Negro's neck in Fig. 2 (see other image of yokes from Clarkson on this website). It is reported to be so heavy and unmanageable that it is extremely difficult for the person who wears it to walk, much less to escape or run away. In travelling it is said to be necessary to lift up the log, that is thus fastened to the neck of each, and to place the crutch of it on the shoulder of every preceding slave. . . . In this way then many of the Negro slaves from Bambara to Galam have been made to travel. . . . When it has been necessary to halt, the crutch has been taken from the shoulders of each, and the person, who has worn it, has remained . . . unable to walk or manage himself as before, and has become almost as secure, as if he had been chained to the spot in which he had been made to halt. When it has been thought necessary to proceed, the log has again been put on the neck of every preceding slave" (pp. 36-37).
Caption, "Feitors corrigeant des Negres" (plantation overseers punishing blacks). Foreground, European whipping black on ground with arms and legs lashed together; background, black tied to tree being lashed by another black.
The part some whites don't get is that this was in 1807 i.e. 2 to 3 generations away.
While we talk about Sadaam, Lebanon etc...., we have to remember that we still have a lot of work to do. A lot of the youth in this generation take how far we have come for granted.........
Be easy.
Peace.
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But there will be those who will say that was 150 years ago. 
