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Daguerreotype of Renty or Rentry, a slave from the Congo, on a plantation in Columbia, South Carolina, made for Louis Agassiz in 1850.

Agassiz commissioned this and other slave daguerrotypes to confirm his belief in the inferiority of the black race and seperate creation for the different races of man.

Related image: File:DeliaDaughterOfRentry.jpg Renty's daughter Delia
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Source http://www.louverture.ch/KAMPA/AGASSIZ/renty.html
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Joseph T. Zealy  (1812–1893)  wikidata:Q40574339
 
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J.T. Zealy, J. Thomas Zealy, Joseph Thomas Zealy
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 2 October 1812 Edit this at Wikidata 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Beaufort County
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Columbia Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q40574339
(see http://www.louverture.ch/KAMPA/AGASSIZ/faces_of_slavery.html)

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