Coffle
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A coffle, sometimes called a platoon or a drove, was a group of enslaved people chained together and marched from one place to another by owners or slave traders. These troupes, sometimes called shipp
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Fancy girl
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A fancy girl, sometimes called a fancy maid, was a young woman of African descent with a lighter complexion sold with the intent of forced prostitution and concubinage. This sale was often referred to
Coffle
…markets of the deep south, where they would be sold as slaves. Their professions were varied as some would be laborers, seamstresses, carpenters and "fancy girls", who would serve as sex slaves. The trader Austin Woolfolk reportedly wanted to collect nine or more enslaved people in a platoon before he began…
1806 bill of sale for a girl, Clary, purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds
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