An enslaved African man and his daughter were forced to pose for images commissioned by a Swiss-born Harvard professor in 1850. A direct descendant of the man wants Harvard to turn over the images and pay unspecified damages.
An enslaved African man named Renty and his daughter Delia were stripped and forced to pose for images commissioned by a Swiss-born Harvard professor who espoused a theory that Africans and African-Americans were inferior to whites.
Nearly 170 years later, Renty and Delia"remain enslaved" by the Ivy League university, which is being accused of the"wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation" of the photographs, according to a Massachusetts lawsuit filed by Tamara Lanier, a direct descendent demanding that Harvard turn over the images, recognize her lineage and pay unspecified damages.
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