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Hannah Bond
America's first female black novelist, and is the first novel written by a female fugitive slave.
Seven enslaved men and women from Columbia, South Carolina

Slave Daguerrotypes

The Slave Daguerreotypes at the Peabody Museum
Source: History of Photography, 30:1, 39-54

From Harvard attic
Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerrotypes
Source:
American Art,
Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 38-61
A Case for Preservation: Revisiting the Agassiz Collection of Daguerrotypes
Peabody Museum and Harvard University
Louis Agassiz exhibit divides Harvard, Swiss group
Source: Boston Globe. June 27, 2012
Hampton-Preston Mansion
Columbia, South Carolina. 2018 marks the 200th year of its construction.

RACIAL SCIENCE AND EARLY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Delia's Tears(Review)
Source: Journal of African American History; Winter2013, Vol. 98 Issue 1, p126-137
Selling Shadows and Substance
Source:Early Popular Visual Culture, Vol. 4, No. 3, November 2006,

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