Crossword-Solution: CHAINGANG 9 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

His brother, a small farmer, who would have taken him to his heart had he recognised him, always regarded him as a suspicious stranger; and what cut him deeper still, his mother, his old, half-blind, palsied mother, whose memory he had in some sort cherished through the horrors of the hulk, the convict-ship, the chaingang, and the bush, knew him not.

Dat was a heap better'n dey does now days, 'cause if a Nigger gits out of place dey puts him on de chaingang.

Atter freedom come, most of Marse Jim's Niggers lef' him, an' den he had what dey called chaingang slaves.

Praise God! I'se gwine to smoke dat damned old pipe one more time." She seized the visitor by the shoulder as she shouted, "I sho laks your looks, but you may be de devil for all I knows, and you may be fixin' to put me in de chaingang wid all dis here writin', but" here she gave the startled visitor a shake that almost pulled her out of the chair, "Damn, if I don't lak you anyhow." Her granddaughter, Callie, came out on the porch to see what was wrong with Lina.

Across their broad waistcoats dangled glittering ropes and "charms" of tawdry composition, well suited to the ankles of a chaingang, so heavy were they; and from spotless white shirt fronts there shone jewels (?) of enormous size and cheapness.