Faces of slavery

by Elinor Reichlin

1977

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Discusses the daguerreotypes of African American slaves taken by photographer J.T. Zealy in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1850 at the behest of Louis Agassiz, who was investigating Samuel Morton's theory of special creations.