A Woman suing Harvard University over slave portraits she says were her ancestors gets key support
A woman suing Harvard University over 19th century images of slaves she says were her ancestors received the backing Thursday of dozens of descendants of the professor who commissioned the images in his attempt to prove blacks were inferior to whites.
Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Connecticut, sued Harvard in March for"wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation" of the images. Her suit, filed in state court, demands that Harvard turn over the photos, acknowledge her ancestry and pay unspecified damages. Harvard continues to profit from the images, the suit says.The daguerreotypes are believed to be the earliest known photographs of slaves.
"For too many years, we have ignored Agassiz's role in promoting a pseudoscientific justification for white supremacy," the letter reads."We see this as a collective failure to live up to our values of anti-racism and compassion. Now is the time to name, acknowledge and redress the harm done by Louis Agassiz.
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