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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--PHOTOGRAPHY.) The Scourged Back.
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--PHOTOGRAPHY.) The Scourged Back. Carte-de-visite of Private Gordon whose back was horribly disfigured with keloid scars from repeated whippings; some slight fading and discoloration in the upper left corner. Np, circa 1863
- Notes: A notorious image, shown here on a carte-de-visite. Gordon was an escaped slave who enlisted in the Union army, and was captured on Christmas day, 1863. See William Gladston''s "Men of Color," pages 78 and 79. This image appeared in the July 4th, 1863 issue of Harpers'' Weekly.
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