Benjamin Franklin Taylor gave the enslaved Renty and Delia to Agassiz for racial photography

Evidence

Through this research, I learned that Colonel Thomas Taylor married Ann Wyche and they had a dozen children, including Benjamin Franklin Taylor, who had not only enslaved Renty and Delia, but offered them to Louis Agassiz to be photographed as proof of their inferiority. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 396

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how Harvard came to hold the images — this establishes the slaveholder who surrendered them.