William Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana, seen with various instruments of confinement and torture in 1863.
The January 30, 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly, in an article titled "Emancipated Slaves White and Colored," included the following paragraph about Mr. Chinn: “Wilson Chinn is about 60 years old. He was ‘raised’ by Isaac Howard of Woodford Country, Kentucky. When 21 years old he was taken down the river and sold to Volsey B. Marmillion, a sugar planter about 45 miles above New Orleans. This man was accustomed to brand his negroes, and Wilson has on his forehead the letters ‘’ Of the 210 slaves on this plantation 105 left at one time and came into the Union camp. Thirty of them had been branded like cattle with a hot iron, four of them on the forehead, and the others on the breast or arm.”
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