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:
“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said “On the line!” The Reconstruction said “Go!” I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“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)