Delia’s tears: race, science, and photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Rogers, Molly
37,22 €(IVA inc.)
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 more than a century, the photographs were rediscovered in the attic of Harvard’s Peabody Museum in 1976.
- ISBN: 978-0-300-11548-2
- Editorial: Yale University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés