They melted down all the iron, including horse tackle and slave shackles, to make nails for the boats.

Among the finds were ironwork described as slave shackles.

Archaeologists eventually found slave shackles, buttons from Revolutionary War-era uniforms and other items that tied the site to a 2,000-acre mid-18th-century plantation known as Beverwyck.

It's even more insane to compare jewelry to, you know, slave shackles" and said "this is exactly how not to write a song about the Confederate flag.

These seven escaped him now, and with them was a young man burdened with slave shackles.

Tekil stretched out a leg, then grimaced when the slave shackles checked his foot.

There were bloody scabs on his forehead where I had hit him with the slave shackles.

Representing broken slave shackles, it was unveiled on 4 April 2009.

The collection contains about 6,000 objects from the 1630's through the 1980's, including paintings, sculpture, photographs, posters, books, folk-art items, and historic documents and items like slave shackles.