Tuskegee’s surviving identifiable photographs raise the same right-to-privacy questions as the Renty daguerreotypes.

Evidence

I also understood my mother’s and other relatives’ distrust of medical science in a new light now. … During one of our many discussions, she compared the six hundred Black men used in that study to Renty, Delia, and the others in the daguerreotypes from a right-to-privacy angle. None of the men in that experiment were treated for the disease—and seventy-four died as a result. It disturbed her that these men were still identifiable. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 975

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Belmont Report framing next paragraph and to Lanier’s broader argument that images of the enslaved are living harms, not just historical artifacts.