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# Papa Renty Taught Us How to Read
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/papa-renty-taught-us-how-to-read/
- Published: 2021-10-27T22:08:35.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:21:38.000Z
- Description: Renty Taylor wasn't only an enslaved individual, he was much much more, and his story should concern us all.
- Author: CM Campbell
- Tags: Comics, Free Renty, Renty Taylor, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

*Editor’s Note: This graphic essay is part of a* [*special edition*](https://wp.me/p837MR-2SZb?ref=hyperallergic.com) *that Hyperallergic published on the ongoing legal case to return the photos of Renty and Delia Taylor to their descendants.*

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