Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes she is a descendant ...

The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that African-descended people are inferior to White people.

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 to prove the ...

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 ...

The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a ...

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 ...