Gordon or also known as "Whipped Peter" was a African slave in America who escaped during his enslavement and became the subject of photographs documenting the extensive scarring of his back from whippings.
There are many uncertainties of his real full name, but enslaved people weren’t rendered important enough to be given a last name, so his name was just Gordon, but even so he was called Peter because of the stubbornness of the slave owners to acknowledge the name given to him by his mother.
The "scourged back" photo became one of the most widely circulated photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War and remains one of the most infamous photographs of that era.
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