The Trump administration intends to remove from a national park a photograph taken in Baton Rouge during the Civil War of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back, according to The Washington Post.

The historic picture of the man, known as both Peter and Gordon, was published by Harper’s Weekly on July 4, 1863. According to that publication, he escaped slavery from a plantation and fled south to a camp of Union soldiers in Baton Rouge. The brutal scars were caused by a whipping on Christmas Day in 1862, the publication said.

Known as “The Scourged Back,” the photo was taken by William D. McPherson and J. Oliver, of New Orleans. Frank Goodyear, the former photography curator at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, told the Times-Picayune in 2015 that the images sho

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