Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Whipping Scars On The Back of The Fugitive Slave Named Gordon

Runaway Slave Gordon.

From the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, "Photography changes the way we record and respond to social issues," by Frank H. Goodyear, III, assistant curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, suggests how mass produced and widely distributed images helped the abolitionist movement.

During the Civil War, photography heroicized the leading politicians and military officers, memorialized sites where the war was waged, and—remarkable for the time—revealed how violent and deadly the battles between Union and Confederate forces actually were. It also played an influential role in broadening the national debate about slavery. As this famous photograph suggests, photography was capable of communicating powerful ideas about the so-called “peculiar institution”—ideas that ultimately undermined the prevailing notion that slavery was a benign tradition.

Gordon As He Entered Our Lines

The photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his scourged back to the camera of two itinerant photographers, William D. McPherson and his partner, Mr. Oliver. Gordon had received a severe whipping for undisclosed reasons in the fall of 1862. This beating left him with horrible welts on much of the surface of his back. While the plantation owner discharged the overseer who had carried out this vicious attack, for the next two months as Gordon recuperated in bed, he decided to escape.

In March 1863 he fled his home, heading east towards the Mississippi River. Upon learning of his flight, his master recruited several neighbors and together they chased after him with a pack of bloodhounds. Gordon had anticipated that he would be pursued and carried with him onions from the plantation, which he rubbed on his body to throw the dogs off-scent. Such resourcefulness worked, and Gordon—his clothes torn and his body covered with mud and dirt—reached the safety of Union soldiers stationed at Baton Rouge ten days later. He had traveled approximately eighty miles.

Runaway Slave Gordon under medical inspection.

While at this encampment Gordon decided to enlist in the Union Army. As President Lincoln had granted African Americans the opportunity to serve in segregated units only months earlier, Gordon was at the front of a movement that would ultimately involve nearly 200,000 African Americans. It was during his medical examination prior to being mustered into the army that military doctors discovered the extensive scars on his back. McPherson and Oliver were then in the camp, and Gordon was asked to pose for a picture that would reveal the harsh treatment he had recently received.


The photographic team mass-produced and sold copies of Gordon’s portrait in the small and popular format of the time, known as the carte-de-visite. The image provoked an immediate response as copies circulated quickly and widely. Samuel K. Towle, a surgeon with the 30th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers working in Baton Rouge, sent a copy of the photograph to the Surgeon-General of the State of Massachusetts. In his accompanying letter he wrote: “Few sensation writers ever depicted worse punishments than this man must have received, though nothing in his appearance indicates any unusual viciousness—but on the contrary, he seems INTELLIGENT AND WELL-BEHAVED.” Within months commercial photographers in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and London were issuing this image on their own studio mounts. This particular copy was made by the famous New York portrait photographer Mathew Brady.

Gordon the Runaway Slave
Harper's Weekly, July 4, 1863

Recognized as a searing indictment of slavery, Gordon’s portrait was presented as the latest evidence in the abolitionist campaign. An unidentified writer for the New York Independent wrote: “This Card Photograph should be multiplied by 100,000, and scattered over the States. It tells the story in a way that even Mrs. [Harriet Beecher] Stowe [author of the 1852 book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin] can not approach, because it tells the story to the eye.” Abolitionist leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison referred to it repeatedly in their work.

On July 4, 1863 Harper’s Weekly reproduced the image as a wood engraving with the article, “A Typical Negro.” Two other portraits of Gordon—one “as he entered our lines,” and the other “in his uniform as a U.S. soldier”—were also included. Together these three images and the accompanying article about his harrowing journey and the brutality of Southern slaveholders transformed Gordon into a symbol of the courage and patriotism of African Americans. His example also inspired many free blacks in the North to enlist.

Gordon in his uniform as a U.S. Soldier.

Records of Gordon’s military service during the Civil War are incomplete. Harper’s Weekly reported that he served as a Union guide in Louisiana, and that during one expedition he was taken captive by Confederate forces, beaten, and left for dead. Yet, he supposedly survived and returned to Union lines. The Liberator reported that he served as a sergeant in an African American regiment that fought bravely at the siege of Port Hudson, an important Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River twenty miles north of Baton Rouge. This battle on May 27, 1863 marked the first time that African American soldiers played a leading role in an assault on a major Confederate position. Their heroism was widely noted and helped convince many skeptics to accept the enlistment of African Americans into the U.S. Army. There are no further records indicating what became of Gordon. Yet, this famous image of him lives on as a searing testament of slavery’s brutality and the fortitude displayed by so many African Americans during this period. (source: Smithsonian Photography Initiative)

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    6. Usual Slavery story with no beginning of who owned Gordon on which plantation. Commonly written to hide the facts that Jews(not White)owned the majority of these slave plantations and owned 100% of slave ships but blamed on White people.

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    7. and somehow this sh!t is still goig on

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    8. @Unknown (Nazi) The jewish people are not to be faulted alone in their conquest over Africans. Who killed for the Jewish people to own slaves? Why would the south fight the north if only 0.03% of white Americans owned slaves? There wouldn't have been millions of deaths if the south were only 50 thousand men strong. The lost cause is a failed movement and you are a sucker for picking up on that Bull, Honkey.

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    1. not a single thing about your post makes any discernible sense.

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    2. You should try visiting the south. Speak to a life long resident...white or black....then come back on here and say this doesn't make any sense. Watch Django Unchained and reply the above article doesn't make any sense. The black slave(s) were a very strong group of people. They went through and endured more than you or I could today or ever. As a matter of fact, there is and always will be a very dark cloud hanging just above all of the southern states because of how greedy white people are and how far they wouldst go to get what they wanted. Take a look around and see that there are more mixed, beautiful, and intelligent children from black and white couples than EVER before! People should refrain from writing about what they do not know, nor understand.

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    3. To the commenter on Feb. 3 -- Thank you for your great insight

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    4. Thank you well said

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    5. this shit is crazy nd y white people aint get beat ya aint no different

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    6. true that.... this shit is sad

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    7. Y r u guys so ignorant about the truth. The comments of 2/3/13 speak the truth. Seeing is believing and when u know better u do better, some of us.

      U reveal ur ignorance, limited knowledge & very limited vocabulary when u resort to foul language to express yourselves. Learn 2rise above ur circumstances & become a better person by learning something. Wisdom is the beginning of knowledge. Don't be stupid forever

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    8. It was bad i live in the south it was what it was

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    10. What I don't understand is the fact that everybody claims to be so religious and all Christians... but nobody understands that this was all prophesized to happen. Everything that happened to the Aborigines here in America was destined to happen to us. But on the flip side, it's also prophesized for American Aborigines, (So-called African Americans) to get back everything that was stolen from them including their TRUE identity. That's right, they're not African at all. They are the True Indians, Hebrew Israelites. The lost Tribe. Children of The Most High. or as they referred to us; (the people of the book...) With all that being said, I'm not at all angry about what happened in the past. I KNOW what's going to happen in the very near future.

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  4. The kind of brutality that "Gordon" (sometimes known in history also as "James) experienced was in fact very, very rare. This article even states that the slaverowner fired the slavemaster who did that. There is a reason why this is the only picture of such brutality that you have ever seen: because it WAS so rare. Slaves in general were treated humanely by their masters, they were not even normally called "slaves" but "servants".

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    1. Thanks for your comments.

      I'm not agreeing with the whole notion of "very,very rare." Abuse by whipping seems to be more akin to the order of the day.

      You can't be serious about the rarity of whipping. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of newspaper accounts of runaway or fugitive slaves with distinguishing scars from whipping, or branding, or removal of teeth, or dismembering toes, or fetters, iron shackles, iron collars. This certainly seems to be the order of the day. I can certainly point to you some of these accounts from Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Keys To Uncle Tom's Cabin" which is available for free online at several sites here's a link http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/StoKeyu.html; or Charles Dickens "American Notes" http://dickens.classicauthors.net/americannotes/americannotes18.html

      As you know photography was new technology in the late 19th century, so the photographic evidence of whipping scars are rare, but that form of punishment was common. There were people who made a living whipping slaves. Whipping poles were found on every plantation. Slave narratives as well as diaries from slave owners account for whipping as punishment. Brad Pitt is making a movie about the slave narrative "Solomon Northup 12 Years A Slave" -- I have an excerpt from Northup's account here http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/05/weighing-cotton.html.

      The records of whipping just goes on and on and on. Slavery in the USA was a 246 year institution. Slavery in the Americas (North, South, Central and the Caribbean) lasted from 1503 until 1889 that would be nearly 400 years.

      Whipping was common. Way too common, I might add.

      --Ron Edwards, US Slave Blog

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    2. Here's a couple of more links to slave whipping:

      Slave whipping as a business -- http://usslave.blogspot.com/2012/02/slave-whipping-as-business.html

      Slave Punishments:

      http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/09/slave-tortures-mask-scolds-bridle-or.html

      http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/02/tortures-by-iron-collars-chains-fetters.html

      http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6971823835434059276#editor/target=post;postID=7947517168856434176

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    3. Again, slavery apologist. How is this acceptable? Americans worked so hard to cultivate an intolerance for holocaust denial--why not an intolerance for casual denial of the reality of slavery? Do these people know nothing of human nature--or are they just the descendants of the men who perpetrated these crimes against humanity? Little has changed, I see. -LG

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    4. {{Again, slavery apologist. How is this acceptable?}}

      I agree. That's one of the reasons why I started this blog, to EDUCATE about the history of enslavement, slavery, and unfree labor.

      There are literally thousands of posts on this blog addressing slavery from almost every conceivable angle. It baffles me how one can read the EVIDENCE of violence and abuse and whitewash its historic impact. I don't get how many mental gymnastic moves one has to preform in order to construct an alternative reality.

      Some people don't like facts, they prefer fairy tales, and myths to history and reality. It must make them feel good. After all God gave them the Indian land and black slaves to work for their enrichment. It's hard to reconcile the American mythic narrative of the land of the free, in the home of the slave.

      --Ron Edwards
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    5. Are you really serious? And what resources, may I ask, have you examined to support your position?

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    6. Likewise, I have come across this slave photograph under various names and nationalities; he's been presented as an American slave or an English slave. One of the first casualties of war is the truth. It has been said that a slave cost as much as a car today. It doesn't make sense to beat up an automobile after paying good money for it.

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    7. Have you ever thought that the rarity of photos has alot to do with the fact that not everyone had access to a camera?

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    8. Slavery was one of the most brutal institutions this nation has ever know. Slaves were beaten, torchured and hanged. This was the greatest testiment to man's brutality against man ever known

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    9. You must be on the wrong kind of crack or rather overdose of same! Have you ever studied undiluted evil that those innocent souls that were brutally taken from their lands, families and countries went through? Maybe you expect them to expose their continue sponsor of terrorism around the world on camera huh?
      One thing remains that white race like their Arab ones are nothig but blood thirsty demons masked as humans.. They think nothing else other than to destroy other if they cannot dominate or rule over them like slaves!
      Maybe you have heard about the slave ship Zong among many more, on how sadistic white folks could be. Forget that Africans in their warm welcoming nature welcomed them in their lands, thinking they're human beings, not knowing that they are demon wearing human skin!

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    10. Rare ? Yes in that only a few photos survive... In fact photos were RARE... Abuse was NEVER rare... Slaps to the face, and brutal beatings of SLAVES were NEVER rare... slaves were PROPERTY...

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    11. {"It has been said that a slave cost as much as a car today. It doesn't make sense to beat up an automobile after paying good money for it."}

      There are a few things I'd like to address about your comment. Comparing a lifeless car to a human with thoughts, feelings and personalities is bizarre. Yes they would have beat, raped, tortured and abused their expensive slaves to keep them in constant fear of running away. Yes they would have beat, raped and tortured women who didn't want to accept their advances (With such a huge sense of entitlement white people had and still have, of course they would have done the unthinkable)

      I'm not shocked behind this slave being beaten this badly and no it wasn't rare it was 'normal' Comparing slaves to animals wasn't to make the slave or the black man less human but to help the white man feel more human. Because to acknowledge the heinous crimes you've done to another human being would make you the most vial, vicious savages and beasts of the earth. No one wants to face the reality of their own evil. So dehumanize an entire race to make yourself feel good about the obvious wrong. Throughout all of history the one fact that remains is that the white man has had his hand in the destruction or tearing down of almost every other race. Not a history or a culture I'd want to claim either.

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    12. I just came across this blog as I was browsing after looking up Sarah Rector. (Please look her up) It's quite disturbing that a human being would be compared to a vehicle. I guess all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust are compared to vehicles as well? What did they do to be treated the way they were and then killed and buried in mass graves?!Families were separated and people were tortured. Sound familiar?
      Slaves, servants or whatever some choose to call them were humans that suffered and endured some of the worst kinds of pain, cried, bled, had their children taken from their arms, were beaten for almost nothing, raped when the slave masters felt like raping them, and the list goes on and on. It's equally disturbing that they were treated this way all because of the color of their skin. Fast forward to the early 1990's when Rodney King was brutally beaten by police officers not because he resisted arrest but because he was an African-American and to add much more insult to his injuries the officers were acquitted by a majority white jury! There were several articles published after this travesty and some of them referenced info stating that Black people were only a certain percentage human! What kind of foolishness is that and even now some animals are treated much better than African-Americans. Fast forward again proving African-Americans are still treated like they're nothing only now more so by those wearing badges and sworn to protect and serve and by no means is that a generalization of all police officers because there are some good police officers and they took the job for the right reason. That list includes Treyvon Martin, (killed by a liar who wasn't a cop and who got away with cold-blooded murder only to auctin off the gun he used to murder this young man), Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott (shot in the back 8 times), Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Yvette Smith, Miriam Carey and the list goes on and on and on...No one on this planet, and I mean no one is any better than any individual! That includes the people in poor undeveloped countries. We're no better than they are, we only have more than they do and that could be gone in the blink of an eye.

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    13. WOW CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE THAT UNINFORMED BLACKS WERE BEATEN HUNG CASTRATED AND THIS WAS DONE IN FRONT OF LARGE CROWDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO WOULD BRING PICNIC LUNCHES AND MAKE AN OUTING OF IT THEY WERE COVERED IN HOT TAR THERE BODIES WERE TORN APART BY TWO HORSES' AND ALL THIS WAS DONE BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE TREATED LIKE HUMANS"

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  5. Thank you for your post! It was both comprehensive and informative. I was also impressed to see that you've posted what seems to be one of the very few photographic images of "As He Entered Our Lines". Do you know whether this image was reproduced and distributed during the Civil War?

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    1. The drawings are from a widely distributed magazine called Harper's Weekly, with a dateline of July 4, 1863. Therefore, if the Civil War started in 1861 and ended in 1865, then yes these drawings are obviously reproductions of the photographs.

      The whole Contraband Camp, Union Lines and Fugitive Slave thing gets a little fuzzy historically. It seems like there were some people who were anti-slavery, but also anti-black, there were some who were anit-black and pro-slavery, some were anti-slavery and pro-black ... the records of abuse within the Union lines of escaping slaves or slave refugees (remember much of the south was an active war zone) is legendary.

      That being said, there were also very active abolitionist Quakers and others who had enough money to use photography to document the escaping slaves. I bet somewhere in the records of the US Army archives there are photographs of the conditions of enslavement as well as the conditions of the Civil War Contraband Camps. But, there is such a suppression of the archival documents of slavery ... Just remember who would have had the most documents of institutional enslavement, the plutocrat planters who started the Civil War and the Lost Cause in the first place, so destroying the records or suppressing the archives seems quite feasible.

      Just remember it wasn't until very recently that the Thomas Jefferson Estate even acknowledged the whole Sally Hemmings thing. There are very powerful families and very powerful interests who don't want this history brought to light. Slavery was a rich man's game whose players included Kings, Queens, Dukes, Lords, Princes and Princesses.

      --Ron Edwards, US Slave Blog

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  6. I think what you say about the complex attitudes of Northerners towards Black slaves is very right. The ambiguity about not only slavery, but the possibility of Black equal rights was a fraught one, a fact that seems best exemplified by the types of representation of Black people and former slaves in 19th century popular news media. White Northern print culture represents Blacks as simultaneously cowardly and courageous, victims and actors (a phenomenon curiously evident in Harper's Weekly's article about Gordon, "A Typical Negro").

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    1. We had a Black President who was supposed to say what?! We all know slavery happened (just as the Holocaust happened) and you're right to say we have to change things. President Obama had a hard enough time trying to deal with Congress fighting him on everything but look at his record; he actually accomplished quite a lot. People keep complaining about the Affordable Healthcare Act but his goal was to try to make sure uninsured individuals would have insurance. Blame the states for not expanding Medicaid and blame the insurance companies for increasing the monthly premiums. That's what they do whether there was the Affordable Healthcare Act or not!! People choose what they want to watch on TV and that doesn't make them a slave. It's their right and/or choice to watch TV and as for the teens forced into sex slavery, the problem has to be dealt with by all; not by one man! The men and/or women who use these young children should be jailed for lengthy periods but how many people who know this is going on are willing to speak up? Only a sick-in-the-head individual would think it's ok to have sex with children, but there again, doing something about it is everyone's responsibility! As for guns, not every one needs to own a gun regardless of whether it's a right. Guns often end up in the wrong hands and we all know the outcome and why do you say 'another Civil War over...guns or Obamacare'? That doesn't even make any sense! People first have to place more value on human lives in order for things to change...

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  43. Thank you for making this information accessible. My own family was on the blameable side of the Confederate War, my grandfather having been the grandson of a preacher/farmer who enslaved some people in Georgia. We have a journal from our former slaver penned after the Civil War; sadly but unsurprisingly he was still not a nice person, controlling the former-slave laborers on his farm by threatening to not pay their wages at the end of the work season (yet also his human side shows as he mourns the loss of his own son). I stumbled upon your blog while trying to look up the value of a family heirloom, a bell, that likely was used during those days. Oh so terribly sobering. Thank you for the wake-up.

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    1. Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I really do need to eradicate the spam on this blog. Although it's not a viable excuse, but being a one-man show, I need to take one day out of the week or month to clear out the crap. I take great pains to get rid of the porn spam. Good catch, I'll work on that more.

      As far as the Confederacy is concerned, my great-great grandfather (to the third power or so) was also a Confederate in Raymond, Mississippi during the Grant Campaign in Vicksburg. We descend from the Colonel Dillon's "other family" ... the one that occupied the slave quarters. The white family got all of the land, and they even have recognition from the National Park Service .... while, Colonel Dillon's other bloodline with his slave girl just gets the middle finger of life.

      I bet those old Mississippi Daughters of the Confederacy don't have a clue as to how many black relatives they have. My grandmother and her sisters stayed in the Raymond/Edwards area of Mississippi, while a couple of her brothers left the South and lived their lives as "white men." All of Colonel Dillon's black children were all extremely fair skinned people and they could have "passed" for white anywhere except Mississippi (that one drop rule was an immutable force). We learned at an early age that black is black, no matter how dark or how light, we were all in the same Apartheid boat going nowhere in Mississippi.

      I'm off too deep on a personal tangent. Thanks again, for your comments.

      --Ron Edwards, US Slave Blog

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  45. "But a slave owner with a few slaves seldom if ever ordered physical punishment and for a number of reasons; the slave would harder to work, control; the slave would be more likely to flee and most importantly the slave might seek revenge and if you could not afford a overseer then you would be the one to face the music.

    A slave owner of means hired an overseer to handle slave matters, which would have been beneath the owner and he would never be presented during discipline. It was considered vulgar and beneath one of status. Now please don’t misunderstand this analogy as I am not saying a black was on the level of a pet, I am trying to point out what society at the time thought of physical discipline. That was something along the lines of one of your neighbors mistreating his familys' livestock or pets, demeaning, cruel, a crude violent person. As, I said I have no doubt if slaves had fled and were caught lee or anyone would have ordered them whipped but at the same time I am just as confident that Lee would never have been present".

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  46. i think its great for the children

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    1. Your comment was SO dumb. What are you, twelve? Give your mom back her phone and go to bed. Smh

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    3. That was an ignorant comment! There was nothing cool about being a slave or being enslaved. If you have nothing of value to post, don't post anything at all.

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  48. more links to "Gordon"
    http://www.abhmuseum.org/2013/06/how-slavery-became-legal-for-blacks-only/scouraged-back-private-gordon-1863-m-brady/

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  49. He was also called "Peter"
    http://www.pinterest.com/pin/193232640233042695/

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  50. Hi!

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    1. Jim Ratery, you must be a card carrying member of the KKK to post something that ignorant. Maybe we should get together and whip on your a$$. How about that?!

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  53. We all agree that slavery was a tragic part of our history, I'm sure being an indentured servant for some whites was not pleasant as well. Between the two, I would pick being indentured. But let us keep in mind, and it is important for our children to be taught, that our Nation was founded on the principal of eliminating slavery, I believe our Constitution mentions 20 years. Unfortunately that did not take place and therefore created the divide that ultimately cost our Nation to pay a very heavy price. Our Nation did not create the institution of slavery, but thankfully it ended it. But now we are all on a better path thanks to all of our ancestors. But, and here is the REAL issue. We should stop concentrating so much on our past and realize that SLAVERY still exists in this world. People are still being placed in slavery, caught, bought, and sold TODAY in some countries just as they were 149 years ago in ours. Where is the outrage, the discuss, the rising tide of hatred against these countries? Or is it too easy to sit back and complain about what happened in our past. Its time to turn our heads forward and carry the banner of freedom to these off shore places that still practice this horrible institution. But I doubt you will ever hear the oh so concerned black leadership or spineless politicians taking up the banner of freedom. Sorry, I carried on too long, I'm tired and your tired of reading. So lets all get another drink, sit back, and complain some more about OUR history. It's so much easier. My glass is empty. Have a great day.

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  54. Lord, have mercy.

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  55. the world was a very very harsh place back in the 1800's

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  56. It really pisses me off that people can take a look at that picture and think it logical to go from there to "white people are sadistic". Bigotry doesn't just go one direction I guess! The fact is that slavery still exists...in "warm-hearted" Africa: in Arab lands; in some parts of Eastern Europe where women are trafficked in the sex trade. Aint got nuthin to do with what colour your skin is. Sadists and greedy mercenaries come in all shades. Today's bigoted African-Americans like to conveniently forget that the majority of African slaves were not captured by Europeans - it was Africans who were selling other Africans, from rival tribal groups, that supplied the market. Slavery is wrong and bad, obviously. But it sure as hell wasn't "white people" who thought of it all by themselves and did it to everybody else. There are cruel exploiters of every gender, every race, every religion, every nationality. And there are kind and good people to be found just as universally. Exploring the history of slavery should not be some kind of justification to support bigotry against others. Part of my heritage is white, but I can guarantee that none of my ancestors on that side were slave-holders because they were poor workers who were also being exploited by the rich. All the bluster about racism prevents focusing on the real issue which is about class and economic deprivation. Instead of trying to make this a black/white issue, you should realize that the poor and exploited of this world are ALL victims of the same powerful elites and together we should combat them instead of taking cheap shots.

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  57. when slaves women were brought to this country they were rape by there white masters and nothing could be done about it.because that is the way it was.slave men would look a white woman or she would lie on him he would get whip or hung. because that is the way it was.now the races are together and i am sure there is a group of people of one race that does not like it but now, that is the way it is. we should all pray and forgive each other and put it aside because it will never be forgotten. because that is the way it was.

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  58. they should be shamed of they damn selfs

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  59. Diana, I would have to challenge you to see the bigger picture. Yes many of your statements are true, and I am not here to minimize anything you have said.

    My family came from the a slave woman who was raped by her master thus producing my great great grand father. He "gave" him his freedom just before the civil war. He asked if he could take his mother with him but his father/master told him no.He fought in the civil war against his uncle who was Robert E. Lee. So some of my ancestors did own slaves. But believe me the wealth that has been passed down the lines to the Lee ancestors has not reached this side of the family.

    Historically, many laws were enacted by state legislatures to keep black people "in their place" not poor whites. These laws took many forms state by state but here are a few examples:

    1. Black people were not allowed to vote in some states until the 1960's
    2. Black people were not allowed an education, or educated in substandard conditions, punishing those who taught them to read
    3. In many states Black people were not allowed to hold public office
    4. Black people were not allowed to own or posses guns
    5. Black people were prohibited from learning/having a skilled trade
    6. Black people were not allowed to testify in court against a white person
    7. Black people were not allowed to enter some states
    8. Black people were not allowed to work in the printing industry
    9. Black people were denied any type of business license
    10. Black people were not allowed to work in drug stores
    11. Black people were not allowed to be on the streets after a certain time
    12. Black people were not allowed to hold contracts as a mechanic
    13. Black people were not allowed to own or drive carts
    16. Black people were not allowed to hold a license for any profit making activities
    17. Black people were not allowed to work in the carpentry trade
    The US Supreme court at one point stated that a Black person has no rights that a white person has to respect.

    These are just a few of the laws that were enacted to keep Black people from participating in the economy, from becoming educated, and having a say in the governing of this country we helped to build. So in the big scheme of things at least in America, yes white people did create the laws and institutions that made Jim Crowe a way of life to hindered Black people from prospering. Not to say that some Black people were not able to overcome these hurdles, but for the vast majority, many were and still left behind.

    So while some poor whites may have had a rough time, I do not know of any laws that kept them from participating in the economy in the same ways that Black people were prohibited. So when you talk about class and economic deprivation, yes, we know all to well about that.

    Some like to conveniently forget what our true history is and therefore are likely to repeat it.

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  60. I don't have time to explain wrong on so many level except poor whites had the same limitations and was why whites and blacks in the South were close look at "Slavery Last Chapter".

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  62. This happened to many slaves although not normally to this extremity, cases with whippings this bad are somewhat rare because slave masters wanted to sell slaves, scars on backs, brands and other things that left marks were a sighn of a rebelious slave which would make said slave less valuble because first it was 'damaged goods' and second it showed that slave had a rebelious past and wa likely to act up in the new enviorment as well.
    If anyones writingf a paper make sure to fact check with other websites and dont believe everything that you read/hear, not all of it is true and most of it is edited to prove a point, also if you want to use any of the comment make sure to fact check those as well because im not sure about the other people commenting on this but im 14 and based off of my spelling mistakes you should have guessed thta I am not an expert.
    Also if you are writing a paper capitalize the Is the first time that way you wont have to go through a second time and edit it.
    Thank you.

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  63. Stop crying about the past... it is what it is. Move on....

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    1. Unfortunately the past is not the past. We are reliving it today. Until these attrocities are fully recognised by all, and not swept under the carpet. Until people stop saying 'the past is the past lets move on' history will always repeat itself. The slavery that took place in Africa can nowhere be compared to this! They were not beaten like this! Or raped! Or taken from their country! Or forced to take another name!forced to forget their heritage, that they were warriors, kings and queens, princes and princesses!Forced to take on white Christianity, forced to believe their Saviour was a white man if not they were killed! How can that be justified and you tell me lets move on. Do you know your true identity? Because I don't. My parents lived in St Vincent. I recently read a slave journal which states that West Indies was the worst place for slaves. The writer could not even desribe some of the things he saw happen to other slaves it was that bad. So, please, everyone, if you think these are all lies, or these pictures are rare occurences, do your own research and seek the truth for yourself!

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  64. Too bad there are still so many vestiges remaining to remind us of this wretched period in our history.

    As long as cops are slaughtering unarmed, innocent blacks we can't really move on.

    When a black person can drive and walk in public without fear of being harassed or murdered by racist cops, when they can walk and drive with the same freedom as whites, we will have moved on.

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  67. It seems to be the only picture of a black that has been beaten/whipped. What economic value were placed on slaves? Do some research and when you find out you must ask yourself about the stories of cruelty etc etc. Why abuse something you paid quite a lot of money for and was going to earn you even more money? Makes no sense does it? Where were most of the cotton mills in the 1800's? If you guessed New England you are right. New England is in the "North". They were cashing in on millions of dollars the cotton industry created. Washington DC had a problem being unable to get their hands on that money so they decided to cripple the industry by outlawing the workers in cotton fields. Not so noble. It was greed, pure and simple that led to the war.

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  68. Slavery did not exist in the South, it is all lies

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  69. Great piece but there is a saying "THE FIRST law of the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.” ---- Cicero (106-43B.C.).

    I have no problem with slavery being discussed but it needs to be examined from every angle and means. We should be asking why would the United States allow and even propagate modern slavery without taking any steps to end it? There is sex traffic, mass slavery in the Middle East, corporations gathering chocolate for candy allowing 7 and 8 years to be sold into slavery to collect it. I am willing to bet you can’t or won’t give up that candy bar.

    I hate the way society judges the slave trade as “they” where better off in slavery than at home (not just Africa, but Ireland, Middle East or South American. The rest of the argument is “they” sold their families, other Negroes and others into slavery. If it had not been for greed no one would have been entered into the slave trade. NOTE Anti Southern sources are claiming there was no cases of Irish Slaves; I am working on a paper proving its existence.

    I don’t want to get too far off this particularly subject so please excuse my digress; slavery in the Americas was wide spread. Many Northern states had their “Black Code” not allowing blacks into their State. Using unbiased sources such as the Library of Congress, National Archives or the “Slaves Narratives” (https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/) conduct your own research.

    You’ll find before the war there was little racism as you interpret racism Southroners and blacks had a different relationship. NOTE: I write historical not with emotions, my wife calls me “Spock”. Whites including abolitionist, Lincoln, Sherman felt blacks were inferior. Southerners looked at the relationship much like you would children or the family pet. You cared for them, fed them discipline them.


    A slave owner with a few slaves seldom if ever ordered physical punishment and for a number of reasons. The slave would be harder to work, to control; the slave would be more likely to flee and most importantly the slave might seek revenge. If you could not afford an overseer then you would be the one to face the music.

    A slave owner of means hired an overseer to handle slave matters, which would have been beneath the owner and he would never be presented during discipline. It was considered vulgar and beneath one of status. Now please don’t misunderstand this analogy, as I am not saying a black was on the level of a pet, I am trying to point out what society at the time thought of physical discipline. That was something along the lines of one of your neighbors mistreating his familys' livestock or pets, demeaning, cruel, a crude violent person.


    I write about the diaries of Southroners stating in part "[A]s to the idea of the faithful servant”, Catherine Edmondston of North Carolina therefore concluded, "it is all a fiction. I have seen the favorite and most petted negroes the first to leave in every instance”. “Those we loved best, and who loved us best--as we thought," fretted one Virginian”, were the first to leave us”. Mary Boykin Chesnutt, the famed Southern diarist and one of the South's most perceptive observers of slavery, understood the slave’s strategy. She wrote from her plantation: "Dick, the butler here, reminds me that when we were children, I taught him to read as soon as I could read myself. . . . But he won't look at me now. He looks over my head. He scents freedom in the air." Southroners could not understand why after being made part of the family they would run away. (This was pre-war).


    Then when the Union used the slave militarily the hatred began Southroners viewed it as betrayal, sinful against God.

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  70. There are stories circulating about General Robert E. Lee whipping his slaves. When I proved the case in point was Lee having a runaway disciplined not one source corrected their articles where they had claimed he personally had administrated the beatings. They merely switched to Lee had them beat. I don’t have Virginia Slave Laws available but here in part is South Carolinas South Carolina slave code which included the following provisions:

    Slaves were forbidden to leave the owner's property unless accompanied by a white person, or with permission.

    If a slave left the owner's property without permission, "every white person" was required to chastise them.

    Any slave attempting to run away and leave the colony (later, the state) received the death penalty.

    Any slave who evaded capture for 20 days or more was to be publicly whipped for the first offense; branded with an "R" on the right cheek on the second offense; lose one ear if absent for thirty days on the third offense, and castrated on the fourth offense.

    Owners refusing to abide by the slave code were fined and forfeited their slaves.

    By the way contrary to the internet and many Southroners Lee did own his “own” slaves and while we are at it the claim of only 10% of Southroners owning slaves is in error it is closer to 30%.

    No one least of all me is condoning slavery it is more complex than you realize. You realize the Union allowed millions of blacks to die in Contraband camps? They used the United States Color Troops (USCT) as a shield union soldiers actually fired on the USCT.

    These monuments are not to White Power or slavery but the 15 year old who marched leaving bloody foot tracks in their wake and did so because they thought they were being loyal to their country. You cannot honor Union or USCT without realizing the bravery and sacrifices of Southerner boys.

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  71. some of these comments are sickening, racism will always exist. Many Europeans still believe that African Americans are the enemy, because they fear the powerful. We are decedents of kings and queens, yet the history channel will place a white woman or man or an Arabic to play the role of an African King or Queen. Why? to make sure we are powerless and uninformed about our true history. Europeans tell us to get over it yet we are being killed like animals in the street by so call police officers. We as people have to stop killing each other unite and take our rightful place as Kings and Queens. Protect our own because on other race cares.

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  72. Hell this does not even take in to account the rapes the selling of children and break up of famlies

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