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‘Emancipation’ Review: Peeling Back The Levels To The Story Of Will Smith’s “Whipped Peter”

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“Whipped Peter” spent 10 days traveling through the alligator- and insect-filled Louisiana swamps to join the Union Army after his escape from Lyons plantation in Louisiana.

During his medical examination, onlookers marveled at the constellation of raised scars on his back from constant whippings.

When war photographers took a picture of his back, and shared it with others, it reminded white people of the viciousness experienced by the enslaved.

Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation retells the story of Peter and his blood-soaked journey to freedom. Written by Bill Collage (Exodus: Gods and Kings), the film is an unforgiving portrait of a man separated from his family and risking his life to reunite with them.

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