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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2021, Lanier told The Washington Post that she grew up hearing stories about “Papa Renty” and how he had been kidnapped from the Congo River basin. Lanier said she became aware of the ...

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 agreed in a settlement to transfer photographs of enslaved people to an African American history museum.

Harvard University will hand over old photos of enslaved people to a museum in South Carolina. These photos are of Renty and ...