A lawsuit calls on Harvard University to turn historical images of enslaved people over to a woman who claims to be a descendant of the man and girl who were photographed in 1850.
A copy of a photo shows an 1850 daguerreotype of Renty, an enslaved man. Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., who says the man is her family's patriarch, sued Harvard on Wednesday, demanding the school turn over the photo and pay damages.
“The claim is simple,” said Josh Koskoff, one of Lanier’s attorneys. “You took something. It doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to me. And I want it back.” Harvard spokesman Jonathan Swain responded Wednesday, “The university has not yet been served, and with that is in no position to comment on this lawsuit filing.”
Ben Crump, another of Lanier’s attorneys, called on Harvard to denounce slavery and white supremacy “if they have the courage.”
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