Trump officials reportedly ordered the removal of “The Scourged Back” (1863), a famous image of a formerly enslaved man, from the Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia. The officials ordered the removal of a reproduction of the photograph, which depicts a self-emancipated formerly enslaved man known only as Peter, from the national monument, according to internal emails and anonymous sources cited by the New York Times. This comes after Trump ordered the Secretary of the Interior to ensure that monuments in its jurisdiction “do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” The photo was originally taken after Peter escaped from a Louisiana plantation and enlisted in the Union forces, and depicts him angled away from the camera, with an array of shocking scars on his back resulting from lashings. The image, testifying to the sheer terror of slavery, became a galvanizing abolitionist cry and was widely circulated i...