Louis Agassiz

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  9/10/2020
  

  Who Owns the Evidence of Slavery’s Violence?

  by Thomas A. Foster

  A lawsuit demands that Harvard University give custody of famous images of enslaved men and women--taken without consent by a biologist seeking to demonstrate white supremacy-- to the subjects' descendents. A Howard University historian agrees, putting the images in context of other intimate violations endured by enslaved persons.