Agassiz photographed an adolescent enslaved girl partially nude

Evidence

Delia looked to be in her teens and was, like Renty, naked to her waist. Her prepubescent breasts made me think, This is child pornography. … She too was sitting down, her waist also wrapped in material, her hands placed in her lap. She looked so sad. Trapped. Ashamed. I saw trauma emanating from her glassy, distant eyes as if she were mentally willing herself somewhere far away from the humiliation of this moment. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 170

Categorization

• XREF: The age and nudity bear directly on the later argument about who owns the image and what was done to make it.