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Renty Taylor

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

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

Avatar photo 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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The Continuing Fight to #FreeRenty

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

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

Avatar photo 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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