Whipped Peter or Gordon, an escaped slave who was frequently beaten. Photo by Matthew Brady, 1863.

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Whipped Peter was an escaped American slave who became known as the subject of photographs documenting the extensive keloid scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery. The "scourged back" photo became one of the most widely circulated photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War

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Photo credit: © IanDagnall Computing / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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