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Mar 21, 2019 · The photos of Renty and his daughter Delia, taken in nude in 1850 against their will for a Harvard University professor, are now the subject of a lawsuit that Tamara Lanier has filed this week.
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Delia Taylor ( fl. March 1850–52) Renty Taylor ( c. 1775 - after c. 1866 ), also known as Renty Thompson or Papa Renty, was an African man of the 18th and 19th centuries. Born in the Congo Basin, he was captured and enslaved and brought to the United States and sold as a slave. He worked on the cotton plantation owned by Benjamin Franklin Taylor.
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Jun 28, 2022 · Mildred Europa Taylor June 28, 2022. Tamara Lanier holds an 1850 photograph of a South Carolina enslaved person named Renty, who Lanier said is her family's patriarch, on July 17, 2018, at...
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Mar 22, 2019 · Renty and Delia were two of the subjects selected for the project. At some point, the images were filed away, but in 1976, a researcher re-discovered the photos in storage.
Oct 9, 2023 · - MinnPost. From Other Nonprofit Media. A racist Harvard scientist commissioned photos of enslaved people. One possible descendant wants to reclaim their story. by Jennifer Berry Hawes...
Mar 20, 2019 · 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...
Jun 23, 2022 · The images depict Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia, slaves on a South Carolina plantation who were forced to disrobe for photos taken for a racist study by Harvard Professor Louis...
