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Kid Berwyn

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33. Mr. Gordon was enlisting in the Union Army when photographed.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 07:17 AM

Sep 2025

From America’s Black Holocaust Museum:

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.

https://www.abhmuseum.org/the-scourged-back-how-runaway-slave-and-soldier-private-gordon-changed-history/

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Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man's scars [View all] BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP

MAGA needs their History sugar-coated eShirl Sep 2025 #1

whitewashed sheshe2 Sep 2025 #18

Really putting the "white" in whitewashing DrFunkenstein Sep 2025 #2

How are we going to undo any of this? debsy Sep 2025 #16

It figures. Paladin Sep 2025 #3

White supremacy The Wizard Sep 2025 #4

They will likely eliminate all mention of Wounded Knee or Sand Creek and moniss Sep 2025 #5

Hiding these historical facts, pictures or documents will not make them disappear..we will still own them Deuxcents Sep 2025 #6

Re-Writing history. Period. Evolve Dammit Sep 2025 #7

Just like in 1984. We're living it now. raccoon Sep 2025 #21

Yes indeed. Didn't take that long either. 9 months? They are the terrorists Evolve Dammit Sep 2025 #34

Aside from the obvious (racist creeps), what would the reasoning be behind that?! C Moon Sep 2025 #8

From the excerpt BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 #10

The scars sort of go against the fantasy that slavery was actually good for the slaves. Jim__ Sep 2025 #9

Don't want to denigrate all those "Historic American" slave owners. They were such fine people. Botany Sep 2025 #11

I hate Donald J. Trump. USS_Dauntless Sep 2025 #12

A million times over. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #22

... Solly Mack Sep 2025 #13

Dwight D. Eisenhower 1945 comment on the Holocaust: Bayard Sep 2025 #14

I'd never seen that Eisenhower comment. BattleRow Sep 2025 #23

+100 Duppers Sep 2025 #31

Hide history, hide the truth surfered Sep 2025 #15

Let's all take turns making up history and facts. sinkingfeeling Sep 2025 #17

Asshole Fucking Treasonous Racists! Cha Sep 2025 #19

They can't hide the truth. What despicable monsters. I hate them. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #20

This shit needs to stop. Gimpyknee Sep 2025 #24

"Sanitizing" history for the new Jim Crow Era. thought crime Sep 2025 #25

I want that piece of excrement to come back in his next life as a Black man in 1840 with LoisB Sep 2025 #26

I remember years ago seeing this and now they want to hide what was the result of slavery? kimbutgar Sep 2025 #27

Try to imagine the extreme pettiness to seek out photos like this and hide them Grins Sep 2025 #28

I have never seen that...... a kennedy Sep 2025 #29

Slavery was a hoax. Marcuse Sep 2025 #30

Authoritarian regimes J_William_Ryan Sep 2025 #32

Mr. Gordon was enlisting in the Union Army when photographed. Kid Berwyn Sep 2025 #33

That picture makes me cry. The regime's removal of it makes me cry even harder. Clouds Passing Sep 2025 #35

That photo is widely available in many books on the Civil War Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 #36

_ LudwigPastorius Sep 2025 #37