Seven enslaved people posed nude for fifteen Harvard daguerreotypes.

Evidence

I pressed on and learned that Papa Renty was one of seven people whose images were captured in the fifteen daguerreotypes: “Here, the seated women calmly reveal their breasts, and the standing men are stark naked,” the article continued. “But their attitudes are detached, unemotional, and workmanlike. In what seems to be a deliberate refusal to engage with the camera or its operator, they stare into the lens, their faces like masks, eyes glazed, jaws clenched. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 151