The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...

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

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...

The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty," and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum ...

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 ...

The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty,” and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum of ...

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