: In 1863, photos of Peter's bare, heavily scarred back—known as "The Scourged Back" —were published in Harper’s Weekly .
: This image became one of the most powerful visual proofs of the cruelty of slavery, significantly galvanizing the abolitionist movement in the North. Emancipation(2022)
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