What is "chainings"

Usage examples of "chainings".

Now she knew why it took beatings, chainings, the threat of a fatal pregnancy, to drive a woman away from her husband.

We want them to know that a knowledge of their whippings, their scourgings, their brandings, their chainings, is not confined to their plantations, but that some Negro of theirs has broken loose from his chains – has burst through the dark incrustation of slavery, and is now exposing their deeds of deep damnation to the gaze of the christian people of England.

This sort of thing is almost second nature with Goreans in the tyings and chainings of slaves.

On the other hand, some owners, who prefer more obvious restraints for their women, who are, after all, slaves, use flatbedded wagons with mounted slave bars of various sorts, sometimes with intricate chainings or couplings.

The only differences between our chainings were usually the numbers of links separating our ankles, this being a function of the length of our legs.