The Trump administration has ordered the removal of slavery depictions from several National Park Service sites as an extension of a March executive order telling the Park Service to remove materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans.” Trump‘s executive order claimed that the Biden administration had advanced “corrosive ideology” at the parks that teaches visitors “America is purportedly racist.”
The recent orders have most notably led to the removal of “The Scourged Back,” a famous photo that shows a formerly enslaved man with numerous scars on his back, from Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia. Material acknowledging George Washington and Robert E. Lee’s support of slavery has also been demanded to be changed.
