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.”
A Harvard spokesperson said that the university was still impatient to place the images in an appropriate public location, and that we had not been selected.
“Although we are grateful to Ms. Lanier for having triggered important conversations on these images, it is inaccurate to say that Harvard has resisted his” requests “” “” James Chisholm, the spokesman, said in a statement on Wednesday. “It was a complex situation, especially since Harvard did not confirm that Ms. Lanier was linked to individuals of the Daguerreotypes.”
