"Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork."
— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies
Date
1796
Metaphor
"Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork."
Metaphor in Context
TRURO
In this manner did they treacherously deceive our harmless fathers. They were marked as criminals, when in the midst of serenity and innocence, they knew no transgression. If you should ever meet a company of wretches like these, you would take them for a string of malefactors. Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork.--Their fettered hands are not at liberty to wipe off the sweat. It is with tears alone that they can wash the blood and sweat from their faces.--In this manner you conduct your slaves to market. Your cattle at least go free to the slaughter-house.
(II.iii, p. 64)
In this manner did they treacherously deceive our harmless fathers. They were marked as criminals, when in the midst of serenity and innocence, they knew no transgression. If you should ever meet a company of wretches like these, you would take them for a string of malefactors. Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork.--Their fettered hands are not at liberty to wipe off the sweat. It is with tears alone that they can wash the blood and sweat from their faces.--In this manner you conduct your slaves to market. Your cattle at least go free to the slaughter-house.
(II.iii, p. 64)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "chain" in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
A.F. Ferdinand von Kotzebue, The Negro Slaves, a Dramatic-Historical Piece, in Three Acts Trans. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1796). <Link to ECCO><Link to incomplete copy in Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/27/2011
