Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," formerly enslaved on a cotton plantation along the Atchafalaya River, showing his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the whipping, his wounds were salted, a common practice; the overseer who whipped him was fired by slave-owner Capt. John Lyons, but the firing of an overseer was not a common policy. Photograph by McPherson & Oliver, photographer, Baton Rouge, 1863.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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