After a 15-year battle, Harvard agrees in settlement to relinquish early photos of slaves

From the Files of Harvard, Here's How Real Slaves Looked 175 Years Ago

Harvard University just settled a 15-year legal battle with a woman over portraits of her enslaved ancestors.Read more...

After six years, Harvard relinquishes images of enslaved ancestors to their descendant

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

‘Flagrant Disregard’: Black Family Forces Harvard to Surrender Photos of Enslaved Ancestor After Years-Long Legal Fight; Images Will Now Live In African-American Museum

After a long legal battle, Harvard University agreed to relinquish ownership of disturbing 175-year-old photographs of an enslaved father and daughter as part of a settlement with a Black woman who made a compelling case for being their descendant. The photographs will go to an African American history museum in South Carolina, the state where the subjects of the photos were enslaved and, in 1850, captured on silver-coated copper daguerreotype p…

Harvard reaches historic settlement over earliest known photographs of enslaved Americans

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National CorrespondentHarvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced May 28 by nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump.Susanna Moore, left, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, celebrates with Tamara Lanier, second right, and attorneys Ben Crump and Josh Koskoff…

Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects' descendants.