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Slave descendant sues Harvard over photos


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"Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? The Descendants, not Harvard, a Lawsuit Says."

"The two slaves, a father and daughter, were stripped to the waist and positioned for frontal and side views. Then, like subjects in contemporary mug shots, their pictures were taken, as part of a racist study arguing that black people were an inferior race.

Almost 170 years later, they are at the center of a dispute over who should own the fruits of American slavery."

Full article at the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/slave-photographs-harvard.html

UK Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6830771/Lawsuit-Harvard-shamelessly-profits-photos-slaves.html

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The slave owners.. technically.

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