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Peter departed for freedom on March 24, 1863, at midnight. [8] Peter had been the legal property of Capt. John Lyons of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana; Lyons owned a 3,000-acre (12 km 2) plantation and was recorded as being owner of 38 slaves at the time of the 1860 census.
Gordon, also known as Whipped Peter, an enslaved African-American man who escaped to a Union Army camp from a plantation near Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1863. The images of Gordon's scourged back taken during a medical examination were published in Harper's Weekly and provided Northerners visual evidence of the brutality of slavery.
English: Scars of a whipped enslaved man from Mississippi, photo taken April 2, 1863, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Original caption: "Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture."
The descendants of formerly enslaved man, Archer Alexander, who helped Union soldiers during the Civil War, will celebrate his role The post Relatives of enslaved man, who helped Union troops ...
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Zamba Zembola (born c. 1780) is the supposed author of an 1847 slave narrative, The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and his Experience of Slavery in South Carolina, which describes his kidnapping and 40 years of labor as a enslaved person on a plantation in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
Campaigners have been left furious after a blue plaque dedicated to an enslaved African man appears to feature the wrong image.. The fixture, organised by the Wolverhampton Society (TWS), was ...
A fact from Peter (enslaved man) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 September 2013 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that a photograph showing the scourged back of a Mississippi slave named Gordon (pictured) became one of the leading abolitionist images?