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Library of Congress / https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a32403/IMAGE INFORMATION

An Iron Gag, which fits round the head, from Georgia

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

May 10, 1810

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 50

Additional Source Text:

"Used in" was struck and replaced by "from."

Accessions Book, 14 Sep 1810 (p. 52): "This day is taken out of the Museum, the Iron Gag, which was presented by Norman M'Cloud Esq. of Savan[na]h Georgia, in consequence of reports."

Notes:

This item may have resembled the gag depicted in the plate from Thomas Branagan, The Penitential Tyrant; or, Slave Trader Reformed: A Pathetic Poem, in Four Cantos (New York, 1807), pictured here.