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Harvard has agreed to hand over 175-year-old photographs of an enslaved man and his daughter to a Black history museum in South Carolina as part of a settlement with the descendant of the photos' subject.
The deal caps a 15-year legal battle between Harvard and Tamara Lanier, whose great-great-great grandfather Renty is featured in the photos.
Lanier celebrated the long-anticipated resolution, saying, " This pilfered property, images taken and used to promote a racist psychoscience, will now be repatriated to a home where their stories can be told and their humanity can be restored. "
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Very good!
Now let's use those images to educate & uplift and to raise the awareness of future generations. There's been enough profiting off their lives in real time already.
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