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The Scourged Back: Media

photograph by McPherson & Oliver, primary source

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Gordon in Harper's Weekly
“A Typical Negro,” triptych of engravings of a formerly enslaved man identified as...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ds-05099)
Gordon Under Medical Inspection, The Scourged Back, or Whipped Peter
Photograph of a formerly enslaved man (variously identified as Gordon or Peter),...
McPherson & Oliver—Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-54375)
Reverse of Gordon Under Medical Inspection
Note on the reverse of a photograph of a badly scarred formerly enslaved man sent...
McPherson & Oliver—Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-54376)
The “Peculiar Institution” Illustrated
Item published in The Liberator, June 12, 1863, advertising the sale of...
Boston Public Library (Public Domain)