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Harvard Sued for Profiting from Photos of Enslaved People
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Harvard Sued for Profiting from Photos of Enslaved People

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Mar 21, 2019
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A Connecticut woman has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University on the grounds that the institution has “wrongfully” seized, possessed, and expropriated images of her ancestors. The images are of her family’s patriarch, known as “Renty,” and his daughter Delia, both enslaved in South Carolina in the 19th century, according to a suit filed in Massachu…

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