Professor Emeritus Bruce Laurie Profiled in a Boston Globe Article on a photograph that went viral—in 1863

University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Emeritus Bruce Laurie was profiled in a recent Boston Globe article titled “This Viral Photo Changed America – in 1863.” The photo depicted the heavily scarred back of an enslaved man in Louisiana. Professor Laurie tracked down the little known origins of a picture that changed America.