In September, a photo showing an enslaved man's scarred back from whippings was removed from a national monument in Georgia.
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Aida Mogos,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
The earliest depictions of slavery were already crawling with the terrible proceedings the Gothic tends to depict, from bloody whippings to family curses to the wrathful wraiths of the slain enslaved.
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