Chains
Chains noun - Metal shackles; for hands or legs.
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- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Source: Badass Boast / Real Life -
Chains are widely used to represent oppression and slavery, both in connection with Max and Nux, Immortan Joe having his "failed" wives milked like cattle, Nux's chest scars formed into an engine, etc.
Source: World of Symbolism -
Lee might have professed to loathe slavery, yet he permitted his troops to lead slaver raids to kidnap free African Americans and dragging them south in chains as slaves.
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