Sentence examples for pair of shackles from inspiring English sources

Blacks go from Dred Scott, the 1854 Supreme Court case holding they could not be citizens (illustrated with a pair of shackles) to the Bakke decision upholding affirmative action.

Their introduction to the Henrietta Marie came in 1991, when they saw a pair of shackles on display at a conference for the National Association of Black Scuba Divers in Fort Lauderdale.

"I have on my legs, Giuliano, a pair of shackles," he began, and went on to report that the lice on the walls of his cell were as big as butterflies, and that the noise of keys and padlocks boomed around him like Jove's thunderbolts.

Ms. Burnside pointed out, however, that two pairs of shackles from the Henrietta Marie are currently displayed in another part of the Smithsonian: the main African exhibit hall at the National Museum of Natural History.

In the center hall is a bust of Washington -- with a pair of slave shackles anchored to the back.

Kenner and Nagy, using a pair of leg shackles, attached Jamadi's arms, which had been placed behind his back, to the bars on the window.

The man had politely asked Bill to tell him the history of a pair of rusty convict shackles on the wall.

They range from a chillingly anonymous pair of rusted slave shackles to a frilled shawl of lace and linen given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria". Read more.

They range from a chillingly anonymous pair of rusted slave shackles to a frilled shawl of lace and linen given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria".

They range from a chillingly anonymous pair of rusted slave shackles to a frilled shawl of lace and linen given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria; from an advertisement for a Memphis slave market that featured a "general assortment of Negroes" to a pocket watch owned by the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison; from Muhammad Ali's headgear to James Baldwin's passport, crowded with stamps.

Now armed with four wing-mounted 0.8-inch (20-mm) cannons in place of the original 12 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) machine guns, the Typhoon proved to be an excellent low-level fighter-bomber, especially when equipped with underwing launching rails for eight 60-pound (27.5-kg) rockets and shackles for a pair of 500- or 1,000-pound 1,000-pound0-kg) bombs.