Delia's Tears Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: Delia's Tears Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780300115482

ISBN-10: 0300115482

ISBN-13: 9780300115482

Edition: 2010

Authors: Molly Rogers, David W. Blight

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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…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/25/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.