A woman has emerged victorious from a lengthy legal battle with Harvard over possession of two images of an enslaved father and daughter who she believes are her descendants. The daguerreotypes, believed to have been taken by a Harvard professor in 1850 as part of discredited study into Black racial “inferiority,

Harvard University will relinquish photographs of enslaved people to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, S.C., in a settlement reached on Wednesday, May 28.