License, verbatimUS-PD
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The Scourged Back - The furrowed and scarred back of Gordon, a slave who escaped from his master in Mississippi and made his way to a Union Army encampment in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863.. 1863 (from title). The New York Public Library.