The handlers coffle the mules at dawn before the long trek across the desert.

The captors forced the coffle to trudge through the desert, each person bound to the next.

At the museum, a plaque described how coffles were used to transport large numbers of enslaved people between plantations along the river.

Before the long desert crossing, the caravan coffled the camels to keep them from straying.

Sweat beaded on the men's brows as the overseers kept coffling the prisoners down the desert road.