No. of Recommendations: 20
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on racism, sexism, slavery, gay rights or the persecution of Indigenous people at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
For example,
Park Service officials have ordered the removal of a photograph illustrating violence against slaves, known as “The Scourged Back,” at one national park. The photograph, taken in 1863, shows scars on the back of a man probably named Peter Gordon from wounds inflicted by his masters before he escaped slavery.
The photo was circulated widely at the time, and Northern audiences were shocked at what the photo showed, said Anne Cross, a scholar of 19th century photography at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
“The bodies of enslaved people like Peter Gordon revealed to them realities they had never seen with their own eyes before,” Cross said, “and in many cases it altered their political opinions about the need to defeat the Confederacy and preserve the Union.”Well, sure, if the photograph played a small part in defeating the Confederacy and preserving the Union, it's gotta' be bad, amirite?
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