Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America by David W. Blight, Molly Rogers

Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

David W. Blight, Molly Rogers

384 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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In 1850 seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence of the supposed biological inferiority of Africans. Lost for many years, the photographs were rediscovered in the attic...

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