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Harvard Relents After Protracted Fight Over Slave Photos
A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...
After 15-year battle, Harvard agrees in settlement to relinquish early slave photos
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people ...
Harvard to relinquish slave photos to resolve descendant's lawsuit
Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be ...
Harvard relinquishes possession of slave photos after years-long dispute
The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...
Harvard relinquishing early slave photos in settlement with descendants
Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a ...
Harvard agrees to relinquish photos of enslaved people to descendant in Norwich
A Norwich woman is claiming victory Thursday night after Harvard agrees to relinquish possession of early photographs of ...
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Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of slaves, ending a long legal battle
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish ... African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants. The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara ...
The Gazette9d
Harvard to relinquish slave photos to resolve descendant's lawsuit
BOSTON (Reuters) -Harvard University ... of ownership over photos that were taken without her ancestors' consent. The two photos will not go to Lanier as part of the settlement, but instead ...