Delia's tears

race, science, and photography in nineteenth-century America

Describes the history of photographs taken of seven South Carolina slaves in 1850 for a study by naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence that Africans were biologically inferior, describing the men and women in the photographs, and examines the scientific theories used to support Agassiz's theory.

Yale University Press
2010
9780300115482
book

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