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Kimberly Juanita Brown: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

by Kimberly Juanita Brown October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

The daguerreotypes of Renty Taylor, his daughter Delia, along with other enslaved men and women, more than presenting subjects bound by unfreedom, offer evidence of the violence and brutality of American slavery, whose dismissals and denials haunt the nation still.

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The Continuing Fight to #FreeRenty

by Hrag Vartanian October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

“For years, Papa Renty’s slave owners profited from his suffering,” Lanier said in a statement at the time. “It’s time for Harvard to stop doing the same thing to our family.”

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Jane’a Johnson-Farnham: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

by Jane'a Johnson-Farnham October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

As a scholar of African American history and photography whose work has focused on the status of violent images in museums and archives, I fully support the validity of Ms. Tamara Lanier’s claim and the amicus brief.

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Free Renty! Reparations, Photography, and the Imperial Premise of Scholarship

by Ariella Azoulay March 2, 2020December 6, 2021

Many scholars write about imperial crimes as their object of study — that is, as something sealed in the past that can be separated from the reparations due.

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Eunsong Kim: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

by Eunsong Kim October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

The daguerreotypes of Renty Taylor, Delia, Drana, Alfred, Jack, George Fassena, and Jem  remained in an unused storage cabinet until 1975, when it was discovered by an employee of the Peabody Museum.

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Sandrine Colard: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

by Sandrine Colard October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

As an African photography scholar of Congolese descent, I have dedicated more than 10 years of my research to the study of the Congolese people’s history of their own images.

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Papa Renty Taught Us How to Read

by CM Campbell October 27, 2021April 20, 2022

Renty Taylor wasn’t only an enslaved individual, he was much much more, and his story should concern us all.

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Marianne Hirsch: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

by Marianne Hirsch October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

I am writing in support of the amicus curiae brief submitted by Professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay of Brown University for the full restitution of the daguerreotypes of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia, currently held by Harvard University, to their familial descendant, Tamara Lanier. 

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Brian Wallis: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

by Brian Wallis October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

The ownership of images has a long and nuanced legal history, which has evolved dramatically in recent years as cultural standards and photographic technologies have rapidly advanced

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Legal Precedents or Reparations? Lawsuit Against Harvard May Decide Who Owns Images of Enslaved People

by Valentina Di Liscia October 27, 2021April 26, 2022

Tamara Lanier’s battle for the ownership of her ancestors’ images is forcing the law to contend with the the institution of chattel slavery in interpreting intellectual property parameters.

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Fred Moten: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

by Fred Moten October 27, 2021December 6, 2021

What is the relation between possessing a person, possessing their image, and dispossessing their progeny

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Descendant of Enslaved People Sues Harvard for Rights to Daguerreotypes of Her Ancestors

by Jasmine Weber March 20, 2019October 27, 2021

“For years, Papa Renty’s slave owners profited from his suffering,” Tamara Lanier said in a statement. “It’s time for Harvard to stop doing the same thing to our family.”

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