The settlement ends a 15-year battle between Lanier and the university to release the 19th-century daguerreotypes . . . . Lanier’s attorney Joshua Koskoff told The Associated Press that the resolution is an “unprecedented” victory for descendants of those enslaved in the U.S.
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Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a legal battle
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.