Slave collar may refer to:
- Collar used to identify and discipline slaves
- Collar (BDSM), collar used in bondage
In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a bizarre fashion amongst wealthy Europeans to have their black household slaves or servants wear silver collars. These were often inscribed with the name of the "owner". The slave collar is to be seen in pictures of the period.
Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or collar:
“In some withdrawn, unpublic mead
Let me sigh upon a reed,
Or in the woods, with leafy din,
Whisper the still evening in:
Some still work give me to do,—
Only—be it near to you!
For I’d rather be thy child
And pupil, in the forest wild,
Than be the king of men elsewhere,
And most sovereign slave of care:
To have one moment of thy dawn,
Than share the city’s year forlorn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)