Judge orders Harvard to turn over images of enslaved father and daughter, ending descendant's lawsuit
The five images of Taylor and his daughter, Delia, are scheduled to be transferred to South Carolina, the state where they were taken in the winter of 1850, for permanent exhibit at the International African American Museum,
according to Lanier and her lawyers. A press conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday. .
They will be displayed as part of the museum's mission to tell 'the unvarnished stories of the African-American experience,' Lanier's attorneys said in a statement.
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The photos of Taylor, Delia, and five other enslaved people, were first commissioned by Harvard professor Louis Agassiz to support white supremacist theories that African Americans were an inferior race.
Taylor was stripped nude and photographed from every angle. Delia was naked from the waist up.
Harvard officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Globe.
The images were long forgotten until they were rediscovered in the Peabody Museum in 1976, where they have remained.
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In its 2022 ruling, the state's high court found that the Ivy League university
engaged in 'extreme and outrageous' conduct when it refused to consider Tamara Lanier's claim she was emotionally damaged by the public display of her ancestors, the ruling said.
The SJC decision came on the heels of
Lanier argued that Harvard had continued to enrich itself off of the daguerreotypes of her ancestors by using the images for advertising and commercial purposes.
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