A crucial tool of the slave trade, shackles evoke an ugly part of America's past

For European and American slave traders, iron shackles were seen simply as tools that helped run the transatlantic slave ...
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Set of wrought iron leg shackles

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Shackled: Leg-Irons Reappear In Russian Courts

In the spring of 2021, Russia's Interior Ministry placed a tender for nearly 15,000 sets of shackles at a cost of almost 70 million rubles ($1.1 million). "Shackles are not widely used today," a ...
NPR

Difficult Births: Laboring And Delivering In Shackles

It's a practice so hidden, many don't realize it exists: the shackling of incarcerated women during childbirth. Across the U.S., there are stories of women going from jails or prisons to hospitals, ...