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Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.
Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes ...
A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...
Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be ...
The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...
Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a university professor back in the 1800s.   Tamara Lanier, the ...
Harvard University will relinquish the earliest known images of enslaved people in the United States, ending a decades-long ...
BOSTON — Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be photographed in 1850 for a racist study by a professor trying ...
The photos of the subjects identified ... In Lanier’s lawsuit, she asked for Harvard to acknowledge its complicity in slavery, listen to Lanier’s oral family history and pay an unspecified ...
Harvard to Relinquish Slave Photos to Resolve Descendant's Lawsuit By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his ...