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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.
- Delia Taylor (fl. March 1850–52)
- Renty Thomson, Papa Renty
- Being one of the subjects of the oldest known slave photos
- unknown; after c. 1866 (aged at least 91), probably Columbia, South Carolina
Jun 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 her home in Norwich, Conn. (John Shishmanian/AP)
- Mildred Europa Taylor
Mar 21, 2019 · 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. This is where the ...
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Apr 11, 2019 · Renty Taylor III was sold to a slave owner named Thompson. Among his children was Frederick Douglass Thompson, Tamara Lanier’s grandfather. “As a child, my mom often talked about her enslaved ancestors, particularly the man in the image, who she fondly referred to as Papa Renty,” Lanier said on “Democracy Now!” “She also talked ...
Sep 23, 2021 · In March 2019 Tamara Lanier filed a lawsuit against Harvard University and Peabody Museum for “wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation of photographic images” of her enslaved ancestors, Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia. After Lanier’s mother passed away in 2010, she had started researching information on Papa Renty.
Mar 22, 2019 · Lanier had grown up hearing family oral history about an ancestor named Renty Taylor or “Papa Renty” and through her work she believes she has connected her family to the man in the photograph ...
Apr 21, 2022 · The images depict her ancestors, Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia, and are some of the oldest existing photographs of enslaved people. “For years, Papa Renty’s slave owners profited from ...
