The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a university professor back in the 1800s.   Tamara Lanier, the ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...

Harvard will release the 175-year-old photographs to a South Carolina museum as part of a settlement with one of the subjects' descendants.