Skip to Videos All | Season Two | Season One | Season Two, To Show or Not to Show: Censorship, and the Case of the Scourged Back with Anne Strachan Cross & Matt Fox-Amato Anne Strachan Cross and Matthew Fox-Amato reflect on the history of the 1863 “Scourged Back” photograph by McPherson & Oliver, depicting a formerly enslaved man, Peter/Gordon, considering ethics of viewing.