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.

2019年2月7日 · In the case of an escaped enslaved man who came to be called "Whipped Peter," an 1863 photo of his savagely scarred back helped raise a national outcry against the cruelty of slavery.

The Scourged Back: This slave named Gordon ran for 80 miles to join the Union Forces in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March 1863. This famous photo of the welts on his badly "scourged back" was taken while he was being fitted for a uniform.

Perhaps the most famous of all known Civil War–era portraits of slaves, the photograph dates from March or April 1863 and was made in a camp of Union soldiers along the Mississippi River, where the subject took refuge after escaping his bondage on a nearby Mississippi plantation.

2023年7月1日 · Who was Gordon (aka ‘Whipped Peter’) and how did the photo of his scourged back provide visual evidence of brutal treatment of African Americans? In 1863, one man’s daring escape from a nightmarish situation on a Louisiana plantation brought him together with the Union Army that was in a fierce and bloody war against the Confederacy.

The iconic photograph of Whipped Peter emerged as one of the most powerful and widely circulated images of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War. Published in Harper’s Weekly on July 4, 1863, this photograph depicted the scourged back of an individual they named “Gordon.”

2022年5月12日 · The pictures of Gordon’s scourged back provided Northerners with visual evidence of brutal treatment of enslaved people and inspired many free blacks to enlist in the Union Army. Three illustrations showing Peter after his escape, the welts from being whipped upon his back, and in uniform after he had joined the Union Army.

Widely circulated by Northern abolitionists to demonstrate the brutality of slavery, this image shows the severe scars left by whipping on the back of Gordon, a former slave who escaped from a Mississippi plantation and joined the Union Army in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2022年9月30日 · In March 1863, a man in torn clothes, barefoot and exhausted, stumbled across the Union Army’s XIXth Corps in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That man was known only as Gordon, or “Whipped Peter,” a slave from St. Landry Parish who had escaped his owners John and Bridget Lyons who held roughly 40 other people in bondage.

2022年4月11日 · ordon, also known as “whipped peter” was a black slave in America who escaped from a Louisiana plantation in March 1863 after he was nearly whipped to death. The image of Gordon sitting with...