National Park Service to remove photo of enslaved man's scars: Report

[Coventina]

The National Park Service (NPS) is set to remove the photo of an enslaved man’s scars amid efforts to comply with the Trump administration’s March executive order outlawing exhibits that promote a “corrosive ideology.”

NPS said the piece widely referenced as “The Scourged Back” will no longer be available for viewing, sources told The Washington Post.

The move comes after President Trump ordered the Interior Department to review multiple museums including the National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery of Art, where the striking image of Peter Gordon, a formerly enslaved individual, was previously on display.

“Interpretive materials that disproportionately emphasize negative aspects of U.S. history or historical figures, without acknowledging broader context or national progress, can unintentionally distort understanding rather than enrich it,” Park Service spokesperson Rachel Pawlitz told the Post.

NPS did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.

Harper’s Weekly originally published the photo on Independence Day in 1863, in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg. At the time, it chronicled Gordon’s escape from a Louisiana plantation before he took up arms for the Union during the Civil War, the Portrait Gallery website explains.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5505917-national-park-service-photo-removed-enslaved-scars/

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More Nazi shit.....

[Skittles]

1. cannot hurt the fee fees of white supremacists

[Silent Type]

2. Hope they reconsider. It's one of the iconic photos from that period and won't disappear just because of trumpsters.

[ImNotGod]

3. corrosively racist trump administration's March executive order outlawing exhibits that promote a "corrosive ideology."