BOSTON (Reuters) -Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be photographed in 1850 for a racist study by a professor ...

News Nation/World Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a legal battle Tamara Lanier attends a news conference near the Harvard Club, on March 20, 2019, in New York.

The nude photos of Renty and his daughter, Delia, taken in March 1850 against their will for a Harvard University professor, were the subject of a 2019 lawsuit filed by Tamara Lanier against Harvard.

Since then, Harvard has continued to profit off of Renty and Delia’s pain, the lawsuit accused, including using Renty’s photo on the cover of a book that it sells for $40.

<p>A Connecticut woman says Harvard University has &quot;shamelessly&quot; turned a profit from images of two 19th-century slaves she says are her ancestors.</p> News 12 Staff • Mar 21, 2019, 9: ...

Lanier, who says she’s descended from slaves portrayed in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard, can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest ...

Harvard to relinquish slave photos to resolve descendant's lawsuit By Nate Raymond, Reuters | Updated - May 28, 2025 at 2:32 p.m. | Posted - May 28, 2025 at 1:41 p.m.

This July 17, 2018 copy photo shows a 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., said is her family's patriarch.

Harvard sues the Trump administration over ban on enrolling foreign students Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a legal battle ...