Renty, who Lanier said was around 65 when the Agassiz photos were taken, lived on a cotton plantation in Columbia, South Carolina, that was owned by Benjamin Franklin Taylor.

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The photos taken in 1850 of Renty, Delia and 11 other slaves disappeared for more than a century but were rediscovered in 1976 in the attic of Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology ...

Renty, who Lanier said was around 65 when the Agassiz photos were taken, lived on a cotton plantation in Columbia, South Carolina, that was owned by Benjamin Franklin Taylor.

Renty was born in Congo, according to the label on his daguerreotype. Image. An inventory from 1834 listing the slaves on the plantation of Col. Thomas Taylor in Columbia, S.C.

Renty and Delia are victims of a crime, she said. “I think that Harvard, just how they have treated not only Renty, but his family, his legacy, his rich cultural history ...

The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and his daughter Delia.

For instance, in 2017 Renty’s image was put on the cover of a $40 textbook distributed by the Harvard University Press. Bacow has said the University does not profit from the images and only ...

One Renty headed a group of seven who included Delia. The other man, called Big Renty, was listed above two people. Nothing in the inventory obviously links the two family units.

Renty and his daughter Delia, who was also forced into slavery, were “forced to pose for the daguerreotypes without consent, dignity and compensation” (p. 3, lawsuit).

Renty and Delia are victims of a crime, she said. “I think that Harvard, just how they have treated not only Renty, but his family, his legacy, his rich cultural history ...