These are represented by the figure B.
The right ancle of one man is fastened to the left of another, as the reader will observe, by similar means.

I bought these, not because it was difficult to conceive how the unhappy victims of this execrable trade were confined, but to show the fact that they were so.

For what was the inference from it, but that they did not leave their own country willingly; that, when they were in the holds of the slave-vessels, they were not in the Elysium which had been represented; and that there was a fear either that they would make their escape, or punish their oppressors?
[Illustration: Shackles for the legs] I bought also a thumb-screw at this shop.

The thumbs are put into this instrument through the two circular holes at the top of it.

By turning a key, a bar rises up by means of a screw from C to D, and the pressure upon them becomes painful.