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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, 08:17 AM

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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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