EDITORIAL

It's not easy, but please look at the photograph accompanying this editorial. It shows a formerly enslaved man in Louisiana displaying whipping scars on his back during the Civil War. Made in May 1863 and widely published two months later, it presented gruesome evidence of slavery's inhumanity for countless Americans who didn't necessarily comprehend it before. It has been credited with helping coalesce support for the defeat of the Confederacy and ultimately ending slavery.

More than 160 years later, the Trump administration doesn't want you to see it.

Bowing to President Donald Trump's pernicious campaign to recast America's history through a rose-colored MAGA lens, the National Park Service recently removed the iconic image, entitled "The Scourged Back," from Fort Pulaski N

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