The University of Harvard will renounce his property of two haunting images of a slave father and his daughter after having settled A six -year legal battle With a woman who says she is their descendant.
The images, two 175 year old daguerreotypes Who were taken for a Harvard teacher and used as proof of a discredited pseudoscientific theory of black racial inferiority, will not however go to the woman who has pursued for them, Tamara Lanier. Instead, they should be transferred, as well as images of five other slaves, at International African-American museum In Charleston, SC, the state where the subjects were enslaved.
The regulations come as Harvard deals with the assault on disputes as he tries to fight President Trump’s efforts to paralyze the university. Ms. Lanier applauded the result of her case, which will be announced on Wednesday.
“I disagree with Harvard for the guard and the care of my ancestors enslaved, and now I can be assured that my ancestors enslaved will go to a new house,” said Lanier in an interview. “They will return to their country of origin where all this has started, and they will be placed in an institution that can celebrate their humanity.”
Harvard did not respond to requests for comments.
THE legal fight for images From the enslaved man, known as Renty, and his daughter, Delia, took excessive importance while legendary universities such as Harvard and Georgetown clashed with their ties with slavery. In 2016, the Harvard Law School abandoned An 80 year old shield Based on the crest of a family of slaves who helped endow the institution. That same year, the University of Georgetown decided to offer an advantage in admissions to the descendants of people who have been enslaved who were sold to finance the school.
But while museums were starting to repatriate human remains and sacred objects to the Native American tribes, Harvard has preserved the images of Renty and Delia. Ms. Lanier said she had contacted the university for the first time about 15 years ago when she learned the images. Renty looked like an ancestor whose legend had been transmitted by family oral history, she said.
