LABOR QUOTE OF THE WEEK: The Scourged Back
Chris Garlock | Published on 9/25/2025
“The bodies of enslaved people like Peter Gordon revealed to them realities they had never seen
with their own eyes before, and in many cases it altered their political opinions about the need to defeat the Confederacy and preserve the Union.”
Anne Cross, a scholar of 19th century photography at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Washington Post reported Monday that the Trump administration will remove a display of the photograph from a Park Service unit that deals with slavery and the Civil War, as part of its campaign against what it deems “corrosive ideology.”