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100 1 $aRogers, Molly,$d1967-
245 10 $aDelia's tears :$brace, science, and photography in nineteenth-century America /$cMolly Rogers.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axxv, 350 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword / David Blight -- Introduction: Discovery -- A dam'd poor town -- Cotton -- Transformation -- Humbug -- The big fish -- Truth before all -- Storm, blood, and fire -- A positive good -- Niggerology -- Opposite views -- Investigations -- Evidence -- Scientific moonshine -- Epilogue: Revolution.
520 $aIn 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.
650 0 $aSlaves$zSouth Carolina$zColumbia Region$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aSlaves$zSouth Carolina$zColumbia Region$vBiography.
650 0 $aPhotography$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPhotography$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
600 10 $aAgassiz, Louis,$d1807-1873$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aRacism in anthropology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnitd States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
600 12 $aAgassiz, Louis,$d1807-1873.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
650 12 $aAnthropology, Physical$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 12 $aAfrican Americans.$zNorth Carolina$xHistory.
650 12 $aPhotography$xHistory.
650 22 $aContinental Population Groups$xHistory.
650 22 $aHistory, 19th Century.
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