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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.</div>
<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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March 1850<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-03-00T00:00:00Z/10</div>
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://preserve.harvard.edu/exhibits/daguerreotype/detail09.html">[1]</a>