Renty Taylor, also known as Renty Thompson or Papa Renty, (c. 1775–after 1865) was a man born in Congo Basin, who was transported into America and enslaved. He lived on the cotton plantation owned by Benjamin Franklin Taylor. He was one of the subjects of the oldest known slave photos, which were taken by under the supervision of Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz in March 1850, whose ideas were used to support the enslavement of Africans in the United States and promote white supremacy.