The Shocking Photo of 'Whipped Peter' That Made Slavery's
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The widely circulated image of the enslaved man's wounds helped turn white Northerners against slavery.
The widely circulated image of the enslaved man's wounds helped turn white Northerners against slavery.
In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would ultimately divide the nation.
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Leaving aside the moral issue, were the living conditions of slaves on cotton plantations in the early 1800s worse than those of poor people in urban environments in the US and Europe?
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Escaped slave Gordon, also known as Whipped Peter, showing his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana]
