{{Short description|Collar used to identify and discipline slaves}} {{other uses}} thumb|Black boy wearing a slave collar (ca.1697) A '''slave collar''' is a collar used to identify and discipline slaves.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Slave collar |url=https://civilwar.si.edu/slavery_collar.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250328082617/https://civilwar.si.edu/slavery_collar.html |archive-date=2025-03-28 |access-date=2026-05-09 |website=CivilWar@Smithsonian |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>
== History == Slave collars have been attested to in 4th and 5th-century ancient Rome,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Trimble |first=Jennifer |title=The Zoninus Collar and the Archaeology of Roman Slavery |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |publisher=University of Chicago Press |url=https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.120.3.0447 |volume=120 |issue=3 |date=July 2016 |access-date=2026-05-10 |language=en |doi=10.3764/aja.120.3.0447}}</ref> the antebellum United States,<ref name=":0" /> and in serf populations in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chalmers |first=Iain |date=2025-07-26 |title=Coal and Salt – The Chains of Slavery |url=https://www.mining-landscapes.org/blog/coal-and-salt-the-chains-of-slavery |website=mining-landscapes.org}}</ref>
== Gallery == <gallery mode="packed"> File:Inscribed bronze slave collar (Rome MNR 65043; CIL XV 7194).jpg|Zoninus collar, Roman slave collar dating to the 4th–5th century AD File:Roman collared slaves - Ashmolean Museum.jpg|Roman collared slaves File:Scottish serf's collar 1701.JPG|Scottish serf's collar 1701 File:Dutch, 17th century, Black boy with slave collar, Private Collection.jpg|Black boy with slave collar, 17th century File:Musée d'histoire de Nantes - 175 - Fer d'esclave.jpg|Slave collar, 18th century File:Musée d'histoire de Nantes - 274 - Entrave de cou.jpg|Neck restraint File:Detail of Wilson Chinn photograph "VBM".jpg|Slave collar on Wilson Chinn, United States, 1863 </gallery>
== See also == {{Commons category|Slave collars}} * Chains, fetters, manacles * Page (servant) * Representation of slavery in European art * Slave iron bit * Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act 1775 * Torture of slaves in the United States
== References == {{Reflist}}
Category:Slavery Category:Physical restraint