Peter (enslaved man)
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peter-enslaved-man-179-6551404
title:
Peter (enslaved man)
text:
Peter was an escaped American slave who was the subject of photographs documenting the extensive 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 and remains one of the most notable photos of the 19th-century United States. The photo of the scourged back "spurred a number of different narratives, all of which were intended to illustrate the meaning of his p
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Man in 1863 photograph
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(enslaved_man)
date created:
2013-08-24T23:59:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T22:30:27Z
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