Harvard agrees to transfer pictures of slave people to the Black History Museum

Harvard University has agreed to hand over a set of historical images that are believed to be among the first photographers to enslaved in the United States.

The agreement ends with a long legal battle between the Foundation and Tamara Lanere, composed of Connecticut, who says it is a descendant of two people displayed in the photos.

The images, taken in 1850, will be transferred to the African American Museum in South Carolina, where well -known people have been enslaved in the pictures.

Harvard said she always hoped to provide pictures of another museum. Mrs. Lenner said she was “ecstasy” with the result.

The photos are Daguereotypes, which is a very early form of modern images and taken 15 years before the thirteenth amendment of the United States constitution canceled slavery.

The pictures were discovered in storage at the Pepodi Harvard Museum of Archeology and Ethnology in 1976.

The 15 photos are characterized by people identified by the PEABODY Museum named Alfred, Delia, Dana, Fassena, Jack, JEM and Renty. According to Lanier, the settlement means transferring all the images and not just those about Renty and Delia.

The photos were assigned by Professor Harvard and the animal scientist Louis Agasiz as part of interesting research to prove the superiority of white people. It has adopted multiple nationalities, a belief that has now been revealed that human races have evolved separately.

The issue was part of the general debate on how American universities respond to its historical ties to slavery. In 2016, Harvard University Law College agreed to change the shield that was dependent on the top of the slave of the eighteenth century.

Harvard University did not comment on the details of the settlement, but a university spokesman said that “he has long been careful to put Daguraat models with another museum or another public institution to put them in the appropriate context and increase access to all Americans.”

The spokesman added that Mrs. Lanere’s “allegations of Daguereotypes patterns created a complex situation, especially since Harvard University was unable to confirm that Mrs. Lani is linked to individuals in the dark style.”

Mrs. Lyne Filed a lawsuit against Harvard in 2019On the pretext that the photos were taken without approval and accused the University of benefiting from it through large licensing fees.

In 2022, the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts supported a former ruling that refused to claim Mrs. Lnir’s ownership. However, she was allowed to claim emotionally. Harvard’s referee had “collusion” in the “horrific measures” surrounding the creation of pictures.

“Harvard’s current obligations cannot be separated from her previous violations,” he added.

Mrs. Lenner BBC was told, it was a “euphoria” about the settlement. She said: “I always knew first that I can never take care of Daguereotypes patterns at the level they will need,” she said.

“There are many relationships that link Renty and Delia and other worshipers to this particular part of South Carolina to the extent that their return to home will be like a return ceremony for the homeland.”

The South Carolina Museum helped Mrs. Laner in the lineage of genealogy, but she did not participate in the legal battle. Its president said they intend to keep pictures and display them “in context with truth and sympathy.”

“These are not nice pictures and the story behind how to hear it is more difficult,” Tonya Matthews told the BBC.

“To be in an area that has already created a room for talks about the insecurity of slavery and enslavement and to what extent do these effects hesitate to this day is what we do and it is our mission.”