Slave iron headdress description and photo
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Title
Slave iron headdress description and photo
Subject
Slave iron headdress
Description
Text: This iron headdress made moving through the woods problematic. Vines and branches often twisted and became entwined around the tops of the headdress entangling and trapping the person on whose head it had been fastened and who had atempted to run away. How would you have appeared in such an apparatus fastened to your head to prevent your escape? Many men and women attempted to escape slavery more than one time. Many of them ran away by themselves, while others took their children with them. Courtesy of Dr. John Joyce.
Creator
Don’t Duck History
Source
Portsmouth Community Colored Library Museum, Portsmouth VA
Publisher
Don’t Duck History
Date
photo taken 08-08-2015
Contributor
Photo credit: Tracy Clark
Rights
Don’t Duck History
Format
Digital photo, jpg file
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
photo of text
Physical Dimensions
2.2 MB
Files
Citation
Don’t Duck History, “Slave iron headdress description and photo,” Don't Duck History, accessed May 17, 2024, https://dontduckhistory.omeka.net/items/show/35.