Harvard Surrenders Early Slave Photos

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After 15-year battle, Harvard agrees in settlement to relinquish early slave photos

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Tamara Lanier sued Harvard University in 2019 for “wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation’ of the images.

The settlement marks the end of a 15-year battle between Lanier and the nation’s most elite university to release the 19th-century “daguerreotypes” The photos of the subjects identified by Lanier as her great-great-great grandfather Renty and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology .

An undisclosed financial settlement was part of the resolution with Harvard announced Wednesday .

Harvard still hasn't publicly acknowledged Lanier 's connection to them or its connection to perpetuating slavery in the U.S. , Koskoff said.

He said Lanier isn't expecting or waiting to hear from the institution, but that the settlement speaks for itself.

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