Keywords: Renty or Rentry.png Daguerreotype of Renty or Rentry a slave from the Congo on a plantation in Columbia South Carolina made for Louis Agassiz in 1850 Agassiz commissioned this and other slave daguerrotypes to confirm his belief in the inferiority of the black race and seperate creation for the different races of man Related image File DeliaDaughterOfRentry jpg Renty's daughter Delia http //www louverture ch/KAMPA/AGASSIZ/renty html 1850 Creator Joseph T Zealy see http //www louverture ch/KAMPA/AGASSIZ/faces_of_slavery html PD-old-100 Agassiz Zealy slave portraits Photographs by Joseph T Zealy |