[ari-freedom]

That's called treating people like sh!t

[TexConfederate1861]

No....it’s called DERMATITIS! :)

[ought-six]

Interesting picture. Where is it from and what is it of (other than the obvious)? A victim of inter-tribal or internecine warfare in Africa? The victim of a Belgian colonist in the Congo? A wayward servant of an Arab?

Slavery was and is a terrible thing. Even when it was practiced in the North. Even when New England shipping interests made fortunes trafficking in their sad cargo.

Inhumanity is evil, even when perpetrated in Detroit.

[4CJ]

The ex-slave pictured was named ‘Gordon’. Doctors confirmed he suffered from a medical condition that exaggerated the scarring. And the overseer of the plantation (in Mississippi IIRC) was a yankee.

[smug]

With this particular image we know the name, or in this case names, of the person in it and the year it was taken. But without that knowledge could we tell if the victim was a slave from the north or south? Or a slave at all, as whippings were a common enough punishment for crime even as late as the 1860’s. General Grant had a teamster who was beating a horse tied to a tree and whipped. Cruelty has no border, no line of demarcation, no color or nationality.