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.
