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:
“Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner’s claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, ‘A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!’”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“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)