Source: Google News – Health
Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked across the body of a formerly enslaved Louisiana man, "Scourged Back" is one of the 19th century’s defining photographs. But amid growing political debate over how history is presented in America’s museums, the 1863 photo has become a flashpoint in the controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls "corrosive ideology" from federally owned sites.


