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manacle

noun as in handcuff

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“We’ll get you fixed up, Phillip,” Jack said softly as he carefully sliced through the prince’s manacles with the witch’s knife.

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Its brutal tools were whips, manacles, and floating prisons called slave ships.

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He set his hands on her shoulders, and she expected him to shove her forward into waiting manacles.

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Initially modeled in plaster and later cast in bronze, “The Freedman” portrays a formerly enslaved man clad in a loincloth, his left arm in manacles, his right breaking free from the chains of bondage.

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"And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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