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Delia's Tears - Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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Delia's Tears - Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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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 of Harvard's
Peabody Museum in 1976. In the first narrative history of these
images, Molly Rogers tells the story of the photographs, the people
they depict, and the men who made and used them. Weaving together
the histories of race, science, and photography in
nineteenth-century America, Rogers explores the invention and uses
of photography, the scientific theories the images were intended to
support and how these related to the race politics of the time, the
meanings that may have been found in the photographs, and the
possible reasons why they were "lost" for a century or more. Each
image is accompanied by a brief fictional vignette about the
subject's life as imagined by Rogers; these portraits bring the
seven subjects to life, adding a fascinating human dimension to the
historical material.
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