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Will Smith’s film Emancipation, which was released in 2022, is based on the true story of finding the actor who plays ‘Whipped Peter,’ who escaped from slavery in Louisiana

This historical action drama was inspired by the 1863 photograph “Whipped Peter”, taken during a Union Army medical examination, which first appeared in Harper’s Weekly. One particular image known as “The Scourged Back”,

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