Harvard sued over allegedly profiting from what are believed to be the earliest photos of American slaves
BOSTON – In 1850, a Swiss-born Harvard University professor commissioned what are believed to be the earliest photos of American slaves.
The university still owns the photos. Lanier, who lives in Connecticut and filed the suit against Harvard in Middlesex County Superior Court on Wednesday, is seeking an unspecified amount of damages from Harvard. She's also demanding that the university give her family the photos. It also singles out the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, arguing that Harvard's possession of the photos"reflects and is a continuation of core components or incidents of slavery."
Lanier is represented by the law firms of national civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump of Florida, who has worked high-profile cases for the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, as well as Connecticut-based attorney Michael Koskoff. The photo also was displayed on the program for a 2017 conference that Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study hosted on the school's relationship with slavery.
"This is our history and our legacy, one we must fully acknowledge and understand in order to truly move beyond the painful injustices at its core," Faust said. In the university's use of the images, the lawsuit says, Harvard has"avoided the fact that the daguerreotypes were part of a study, overseen by a Harvard professor, to demonstrate racial inferiority of blacks."
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