"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image BN_Top_100 five months later he was

five months later he was ready to go back to Vietnam

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"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image BN_Top_100 five months later he wasThe image is terrible and familiar. A man sits, his face in profile, his torso exposed. His back is a breathtaking mass of scars, crisscrossing his body and baring the brutality of American slavery. Reproduced as a carte de visite, the image circulated widely throughout abolitionist networks and was featured in Harper's Weekly. Its undeniable power testified to the evils of slavery. But who was this man and how did this image come to be? Bruce Laurie