Harvard University is profiting from of one of the earliest known photographs of an enslaved man, despite repeated requests by his descendants to stop doing so, the man's great-great-great-granddaughter says in a lawsuit against the Ivy League school.
with historic links to slavery — which entangled some of the nation's oldest and most prestigious colleges and universities.The lawsuit centers on a daguerreotype picture of an enslaved man and his daughter commissioned by a Harvard professor in 1850. Louis Agassiz, the professor, used the image to push junk science popular at the time that Africans and African-Americans were inferior to whites.
"Despite knowing that the images were taken under the most extreme form of duress and were thus the spoils of theft, Harvard claimed the daguerreotypes as property within its exclusive control," the lawsuit says. "Today, Harvard insists that anyone who wishes to lay eyes on the daguerreotypes first sign a contract promising not to use any of the images without permission.
This ought to be good. I would love to see her evidence she is a direct descendant.
could not care less about this....
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