Gordon Under Medical Inspection

 
July 4, 1863, page 429

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Note:
This illustration shows an escaped slave who made it across Union lines. His back bears scars from a severe lashing he received from his former master. Illustrations depicting the brutality of slave life (as distinct from the international slave trade) did not appear in Harper’s Weekly until after the Civil War began.
  

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