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Peter (fl. 1863) (also known as Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", or "Poor 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 ...
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."
Scars of a whipped Mississippi slave 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."
Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, an Ivy League institution, has apologized for its role in slavery. (Photo by Christopher Capozziello/Getty Images)
Abolitionist imagery focused on atrocities against slaves. [2] (Photo of Peter, 1863.) Slavery existed and was legal in the United States of America upon its founding in 1776. It was established by European colonization in all of the original thirteen American colonies of British America.
Peter Salem (c. 1750–1816), African American born into slavery in Massachusetts, served as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War Petronia Justa , a woman in Herculaneum who sued her owner claiming to have been born after her mother's emancipation; the records of the lawsuit were preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius.
Prince Tete, a local, leans against a fence of a mass grave at the Assin Praso heritage site, Ghana. (Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters) ADIDWAN, Ghana — Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his ...
The Antoine Fuqua-directed slave drama is Smith's first film since he slapped host Chris Rock onstage at the 2022 Academy Awards. Smith, 54, and Pinkett Smith, 51, who have been married since 1997 ...