<p>Daguerreotype of <i>Delia</i>, a slave woman on a plantation in Columbia, South Carolina. Delia was an American born slave, daughter of Congo born slave "Renty".  One of a series of photo-portraits of slaves made for <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz" title="Louis Agassiz">Louis Agassiz</a> in 1850 for his study of races.
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Related photo: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DeliaDaughterOfRentry.jpg" title="File:DeliaDaughterOfRentry.jpg">file:DeliaDaughterOfRentry.jpg</a> profile head portrait of same woman
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40574339" class="extiw" title="d:Q40574339"><span title="American photographer (1812-1893)">Joseph T. Zealy</span></a>
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1850-03
Photo by photographer J.T. Zealy of Columbia, South Carolina, made by commission of Louis  Agassiz, via <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/museumstudies/ms242/westerbeck2.shtml">[1]</a> Cropped before uploading to remove website marking.