dn-- 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. " [5.29]
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.
Harvard and slave photos...Oops, it's psuedoscience, not psychoscience...LOL...n/t
Tamara was interviewed on NPR. I heard it Friday. Apparently, the photos were commissioned by Harvard professor and zoologist Louis Agassiz as part of discredited research to prove the superiority of white people. He espoused polygenism, a now debunked belief that human races evolved separately.
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IT WAS TIME..
dn-- 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. " [5.29]
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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